Foiled Al Qaeda Attackers Caught Red-Handed with WMDs

NewsMax.com ^ | 4/17/04 | News Max

[musical_airman]

Saturday, Apr. 17, 2004 11:23 AM EDT Foiled Al Qaeda Attackers Caught Red-Handed with WMDs

Two members of an al Qaeda 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 Qaeda plotters planned to launch a WMD attack against a Jordanian Military Intelligence installation, the US embassy in Amman and a government building in the country.

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

"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 Qaeda car was intercepted just 75 miles from the Syrian border and "carried explosives, a chemical bomb and poisonous gas."

The discovery of the al Qaeda 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 Qaeda's hands.

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

[musical_airman]

Have any of you heard about this at all? I figure it may have been posted already, but just damn.

[herzo]

Haven't you heard? There are no WMD's

[facedown]

bump

[sauropod]

All I can say is, "Wow!"

[mabelkitty]

Something about this doesn't make sense.
If they had the capability to do this, why Jordan and not Iraq?

I'm not buying it.

[LdSentinal]

Perhaps they smuggled it into Jordan from Iraq, Syria, or Lebanon.

[maxamillion]

This could be large, if true... They surely can be traced back to saddom...

[Principled]

I bet the captured thugs wish the US were interrogating them instead of Jordanian secret service...heh heh heh

[jayef]

Not buying what? That this actually happened . . . because if you need confirmation it is readily available.

[Thinkin' Gal]

Something is definitely "off" about this story.

[Clara Lou]

Which chemical weapon were they preparing to unleash?

[Clara Lou]

Yes, it lacks details.

[wingman1]

Bump

[randita]

Follow up article:

King Abdullah: Al Qaeda WMDs Came From Syria

[Ben Chad]

A week or two before the Madrid bombing, a car bomb attack was foiled there. I hope they got the whole cell.

[musical_airman]

The only reasons I can think of (off the top of my head) are:

1. Iraq is crawling with US military that is trained to deal with this type af attack, and that type of attack in Iraq would lend creedence to Bush's WMD argument if used in Iraq.

2.Has Jordan been helping us more than we know? Al Qaeda has been targeting our allies as of late to try and get them to abandon us.

3. Stir up more anti-US feelings in other countries in the middle east and take out one of our embassies at the same time- create more roadblocks for us diplomatically, and strategically.

Just some thoughts....

[Deb]

Get serious. Why Spain and not Iraq? Why Turkey and not Iraq? Why Bali and not Iraq? Why London and not Iraq?

Nothing these camel-licking dung heaps do makes sense. Stop trying to adapt western sensibilities to the Arab mind.

Why attack America when it was us who fought the last five wars in defense of Islamic peoples?

[randita]

Actually, my post about King Abdullah was a follow up to this one. Go to NewsMax and you'll see. Oh, well.

[Betaille]

Why is the Bush adminstration not making an issue out of this? Syria just tried a chemical attack in Jordan. Syria Funds and gives safe-haven to Hamas. Syria is sending militants into Iraq to kill US troops. It's time for the US-Jordan-Israel to bomb the living %$#@ out of Syria.

[randita]

Link to cited article in the SF Chronicle:

Al Qaeda warning by king of Jordan, Abdullah says his forces thwarted major bomb plot