Jordanian Militants Shown Confessing on State TV

Reuters ^ | 4/26/04 | Suleiman al-Khalidi

[JeeperFreeper]

Say, any one out there in FReeperland know if al-Jazeera(Arab eqivalent of N.Y.Slimes)(Motto: "All the Fiction Fit to Broadcast") is telling the Arabs about the al-Quaeda plot to kill thousands of muslims in Jordan on the off-chance they might get a few westerners??

[johnb838]

How in the HELL is this being kept out of the mainstream media?????

[boxerblues]

Hey CNN is just today reporting the capture of the chemicals as breaking news. Only a week late

[TexKat]

Did you check out the location of their chemical factory.

Jayousi said he set up a chemical factory near the northern city of Irbid, close to the Syrian border, and received $170,000 in financing and logistic aid along with fake passports and forged banknotes from Suleiman Darwish, an alleged Zarqawi aide living in Syria.

[Asclepius]

"I agreed to this operation because I thought it would serve Islam," a bearded Sharif said.

I hear you, dude. I thought using a super-soaker to spray hydrochloric acid on school girls would serve Islam. Boy was I wrong. I should have tortured them with red-hot pokers first.

(What sort of God-awful religion is this?!)

[DainBramage]

Jordanian state television aired Monday what it said were confessions by captured militants tied to al Qaeda

....OMGOSH...this will seriously contaminate the jury pool!! (/sarcasm)

[Paleo Conservative]

I pledged allegiance to Zarqawi and after the fall of Afghanistan I met him again in Iraq

Don't hold your breath waiting for the mainstream press to cover this.

[kesg]

Still no one wants to report who was supplying the chemicals, or from where the terrorists were to get them. The version I heard last week, when this story was breaking everywhere in the world except the U.S. (FNC partially excepted), is that the chemicals were to come directly from Syria, but Syria may have been only an intermediary (albeit an active and willing one).

A birdie tells me that the bad stuff came originally from Iraq, and the plot was being implemented through Al Queada operatives based in Iraq, beginning with Al-Zarqawi, Al Queada's man in Iraq apparently at least since the fall of the Taliban in Afghanistan.

If I wasn't such a cynic, I would further guess that this part of the story is being suppressed in the United States because it makes Bush look great and his political opponents (including especially the "mainstream" media) look, well, not so great.

[TexKat]

Was this part of Saddam's stockpile of wmds?

One of them on the Jordanian Govt. Video stated that this was to be the first of Al Queda chemical attacks.

[TexKat]

If I wasn't such a cynic, I would further guess that this part of the story is being suppressed in the United States because it makes Bush look great and his political opponents (including especially the "mainstream" media) look, well, not so great.

I think that everyone was waiting on the Jordanian government to get all their ducks in a row regarding the matter and bam here today we get the info. CNN just showed clips of the head guy and some of the raid.

CNN's Aaron Brown is scheduled to have a special on the matter tonight.

[RetiredArmy]

Wonder if these guys got THEIR Maranda rights read to them before the sharp stick started going under the fingernails or shoved up other dark spots?!?!?!?!

[Leisler]

Ve haf waves of making you talk!

[johnb838]

Was this part of Saddam's stockpile of wmds?

The world wonders. Well, except for the US because Pravda and Izvestia aren't telling us about it.

[johnb838]

Jordanian state television aired Monday what it said were confessions by captured militants... (snip)

I pledged allegiance to Zarqawi and after the fall of Afghanistan I met him again in Iraq," said Jayousi, who had clearly identifiable bruises on his face and palm.

Can we PLEAZE get serious about fighting the war on terror?

[TexKat]

This image grab from the official Jordanian TV shows a combo of 10 members of a terrorist cell, four killed and six arrested recently in Jordan, according to the official television station.(AFP/JORDANIAN TV)

This image grab from the official Jordanian TV shows 'chemicals that terrorists from Al-Qaeda were trying to make explosives with', according to a taped testimony by arrested members of a terrorist network in Jordan aired by the official television station.(AFP/JORDANIAN TV)

This image grab from the official Jordanian TV shows one of the workshops where members of a terrorist cell in Jordan were preparing 'chemicals that terrorists from Al-Qaeda were trying to make explosives with', according to a taped testimony aired by the official television station.(AFP/JORDANIAN TV)

This image grab from the official Jordanian TV shows one of the cars purchased by a terrorist cell in Jordan who were planning a huge attack in Amman, according to a taped testimony by members of the cell aired by the official television station.(AFP/JORDANIAN TV)

A portrait of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden burns after protestors set alight his effigy during a protest against terrorism. Jordan foiled a chemical attack linked to Al-Qaeda against the intelligence services with trucks loaded with 20 tons of explosives that could have killed 80,000 people, security officials said.(AFP/File/Mandel Ngan)

[TexKat]

Jordan says major al Qaeda plot disrupted

In a videotape shown on Jordanian TV, Hussein Sharif said he was recruited as a suicide bomber.

See the suspected terrorists' taped confessions on CNN's NewsNight with Aaron Brown at 10 pm ET.

[TexKat]

Ping

[Peach]

10:00 CNN tonight. I'm watching and taping it.

[Dog]

See post number 5..