Posted on 03/07/2007 7:35:35 AM PST by jmc1969
Three suspected Jordanian Islamists appeared in court on Wednesday accused of plotting to assassinate US President George W Bush and to bomb the US and Danish embassies.
Nidal Momani, Sattam Zawahra and Tharwat Ali Draz were arrested on November 28, a day before Bush visited Jordan, and later indicted on charges of "conspiracy to carry out terrorist plots", a judicial source said.
The men allegedly plotted to "bomb the US and Danish embassies in Jordan and assassinate US President George W Bush upon his arrival to Jordan on a visit", the source said, quoting the charge sheet.
The suspects, all in their 20s, hail from Zarqa, northeast of Amman, and were "bound by friendship and their jihadist" Islamist religious convictions, the charge sheet said.
They are also accused of attacking a beer factory in Zarqa in October with home-made petrol bombs which they threw at a stack of wooden crates, setting them on fire, it said.
Zarqa is also the home town of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the militant Sunni Islamist who headed al-Qaeda in Iraq until he was killed in a US air strike in June last year.
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They attacked a beer factory? Hang 'em high!
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