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  • "Chemical expert testifies in Jordan trial" (thousands of people would have died)

    06/30/2005 1:29:02 PM PDT · by WmShirerAdmirer · 14 replies · 1,846+ views
    AP tory via The Herald Online ^ | June 30, 2005 | Jamal Halaby
    AMMAN, Jordan (AP) - Islamic militants planned to detonate an explosion that would have sent a cloud of toxic chemicals across Jordan, causing death, blindness and sickness, a chemical expert testified in a military court Wednesday. Col. Najeh al-Azam was giving evidence in the trial of 13 men who are alleged to have planned what would have been the world's first chemical attack by the al-Qaida terror group. The accused include al-Qaida's leader in Iraq, Abu-Musab Al-Zarqawi, and three other fugitives who are being tried in absentia. Jordanian security services foiled the plot in April last year. Jordanian officials say...