Jordanians accused of planning terror attacks

AFP ^ | 9/15/04

[TexKat]

AMMAN (AFP) - Two Jordanians were charged here with planning to carry out attacks on diplomats in the country, according to their charge sheet.

In a separate case, another man was accused of having links with fellow Jordanian Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi, considered to be the leader in Iraqof Osama bin Laden 's Al-Qaeda terror network.

Student Khaled Abdelrahman Jibran, 20, and shop employee Abdelhamid Ezzat Mahmoud Yassin, 31, were charged by the state security court prosecutor with "conspiracy to carry out terrorist acts."

They were also charged with planning "military operations against foreign diplomats as revenge on their countries for their stances regarding Muslim causes."

The two had agreed "to carry out the military operations against the foreign diplomats who frequented the shop where the second accused worked," the charge sheet said and had arranged to buy Kalashnikov assault rifles for that purpose. Jibran and Yassin were arrested on May 31. Copies of letters exempting four diplomats from taxation were found in Yassin's home.

Witnesses will be called to testify on Thursday.

Meanwhile, Bilal Mansur Mahmud al-Hiyari, 34, was also charged in the same court with "conspiracy to carry out terrorist acts," his charge sheet said.

Hiyari was said to have travelled to Iraq in July 2003 and made contact with Zarqawi, who tasked him with raising money to finance operations in Jordan and Iraq.

[TexKat]

[End Times Sentinel]

Wow, an ARAB planning a terror attack???  Shock-o-shocks!

Aside from riding camels and picking dates off trees, is there anything else these people do?

Owl_Eagle

”Guns Before Butter.”