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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
Posted on 04/18/2004 4:45:18 AM PDT by 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.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaida; anthrax; iraq; jordan; searchbeforeposting; syria; terror; wmd
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"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.
To: RaceBannon
VERY Interesting....Thanks for posting
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posted on
04/18/2004 4:50:01 AM PDT
by
nuconvert
("America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins." ( President Bush 3-20-04))
To: RaceBannon
Just keep wondering if the bomb was headed for Israel via Jordan.
To: nuconvert
How is it that this news has not hit major US News???
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posted on
04/18/2004 4:52:04 AM PDT
by
stocksthatgoup
(illegitimo noncarborundium)
To: nuconvert
VERY Interesting....Thanks for posting
Well, it's only been posted 8 times in the last day, I think.
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posted on
04/18/2004 4:52:29 AM PDT
by
John H K
To: John H K
Gee, not under this title, it wasnt!
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posted on
04/18/2004 4:53:06 AM PDT
by
RaceBannon
(VOTE DEMOCRAT AND LEARN ARABIC FREE!!)
To: John H K
I've seen this posted three times now.
And there's still no secondary source on the WMD angle.
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posted on
04/18/2004 4:54:19 AM PDT
by
angkor
To: RaceBannon
This is the first I've heard of this attempted attack. Thanks for posting.
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posted on
04/18/2004 4:56:00 AM PDT
by
Quilla
To: angkor; John H K
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!
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posted on
04/18/2004 4:56:15 AM PDT
by
RaceBannon
(VOTE DEMOCRAT AND LEARN ARABIC FREE!!)
To: RaceBannon
WHO caught them 75 miles from the Syrian border? Does this have something to do with the US firefight, also near the Syrian border?
To: angkor
All I have heard is "chemical" weapons, nothing more specific. What chemicals?
To: RaceBannon; angkor; John H K
Wait,. that was the Kng Abdullah thread that was a duplicate, this one I didnt find when I scanned the sidebars
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posted on
04/18/2004 4:59:28 AM PDT
by
RaceBannon
(VOTE DEMOCRAT AND LEARN ARABIC FREE!!)
To: RaceBannon
btt
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posted on
04/18/2004 5:00:32 AM PDT
by
stocksthatgoup
(illegitimo noncarborundium)
To: RaceBannon
Hmm, 75 miles from Syrian border. Gee, wonder where those WMD came from?
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posted on
04/18/2004 5:02:24 AM PDT
by
I_dmc
To: RaceBannon
The NewsMax piece was posted several times yesterday.
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posted on
04/18/2004 5:09:05 AM PDT
by
angkor
To: RaceBannon
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...
To: angkor
Are the other threads from a credible source?
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posted on
04/18/2004 5:10:14 AM PDT
by
Hillary's Lovely Legs
(I am trying to stop an outbreak here and you are driving the monkey to the airport!)
To: RaceBannon
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?
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posted on
04/18/2004 5:11:17 AM PDT
by
hershey
To: Hillary's Lovely Legs
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.
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posted on
04/18/2004 5:16:50 AM PDT
by
dadokane
(Please: NO profanity, NO personal attacks, NO racism or violence in posts. HATE OK.)
To: dadokane
NewMax not credible?No, they are not.
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posted on
04/18/2004 5:20:26 AM PDT
by
Hillary's Lovely Legs
(I am trying to stop an outbreak here and you are driving the monkey to the airport!)
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