Foiled al-Qaida Attackers Caught Red-Handed With WMDs

Newsmax.com ^ | Saturday, April 17, 2004 11:23 a.m. EDT | With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[RaceBannon]

Saturday, April 17, 2004 11:23 a.m. EDT Foiled al-Qaida Attackers Caught Red-Handed With WMDs

Two members of an al-Qaida cell connected to top terror master Abu Musab al-Zarqawi have been caught in Jordan with chemical weapons and poisonous gas for a planned attack that Jordanian officials say would have killed up to 20,000 people.

The officials told the London-based newspaper al-Hayat on Friday that the al-Qaida plotters planned to launch a WMD attack against a Jordanian Military Intelligence installation, the U.S. Embassy in Amman and a government building in the country.

According to the Israeli newspaper Maariv, the al-Qaida terrorists managed to smuggle three cars packed with explosives into Amman. Jordanian security forces found a chemical charge in one vehicle.

[RaceBannon]

"The bomb, had it been detonated, could have affected people in a one-kilometer radius and cause the deaths of up to 20,000 people," Jordanian officials told Maariv.

According to United Press International, the al-Qaida car was intercepted just 75 miles from the Syrian border and "carried explosives, a chemical bomb and poisonous gas."

The discovery of the al-Qaida WMD plot is sure to renew speculation that some of Saddam Hussein's missing weapons of mass destruction were hidden in Syria before the U.S. attacked in March 2003, and have now found their way into al-Qaida's hands.

As of Saturday morning, the White House had not commented on the al-Qaida WMD plot and its possible ties to Iraq.

[nuconvert]

VERY Interesting....Thanks for posting

[DainBramage]

Just keep wondering if the bomb was headed for Israel via Jordan.

[stocksthatgoup]

How is it that this news has not hit major US News???

[John H K]

VERY Interesting....Thanks for posting

Well, it's only been posted 8 times in the last day, I think.

[RaceBannon]

Gee, not under this title, it wasnt!

[angkor]

I've seen this posted three times now.

And there's still no secondary source on the WMD angle.

[Quilla]

This is the first I've heard of this attempted attack. Thanks for posting.

[RaceBannon]

I did a search for the exact phrase, and it didnt show up!

I was wrong, this is about the 3rd thread if you scan down the columns!

[Solamente]

WHO caught them 75 miles from the Syrian border? Does this have something to do with the US firefight, also near the Syrian border?

[NeonKnight]

All I have heard is "chemical" weapons, nothing more specific. What chemicals?

[RaceBannon]

Wait,. that was the Kng Abdullah thread that was a duplicate, this one I didnt find when I scanned the sidebars

[stocksthatgoup]

btt

[I_dmc]

Hmm, 75 miles from Syrian border. Gee, wonder where those WMD came from?

[angkor]

The NewsMax piece was posted several times yesterday.

[ARepublicanForAllReasons]

al-Qaida plotters planned to launch a WMD attack against a Jordanian Military Intelligence installation, the U.S. Embassy in Amman and a government building

Gov't building, hmm, like the Royal Palace, for instance? This is big news, could get more interesting...

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

Are the other threads from a credible source?

[hershey]

Uh, think Jordan will help us out a bit more in the war against whackoterrorists now that they know they have a big fat red target painted on their behinds?

[dadokane]

Are the other threads from a credible source?

NewMax not credible?

Seriously, one of the British papers reported that it was at planning stage and that items siezed could be used to assemble a chemical weapon.

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

NewMax not credible?

No, they are not.