Posted on 06/11/2006 7:42:16 AM PDT by Carl/NewsMax
The New York Times reports today that before his death, top al Qaeda terrorist Abu Musab al Zarqawi trained about 300 foreign fighters in Iraq and sent them back to their home countries, where they awaited orders to carry out strikes.
But the paper makes no mention of Zarqawi's most ambitious foreign attack plot, which nearly succeeded two years ago: a weapons of mass destruction strike that intelligence officials estimated would have killed 20,000.
The death toll planned by Zarqawi would have far exceeded the destruction wrought by Osama bin Laden on Sept. 11.
The April 2004 attack, which was all but ignored by the Western press, was foiled at the last minute when Jordanian officials intercepted a convoy of three vehicles near the Syrian border.
It's cargo: 23,000 gallons of chemicals, poison gas and explosives. The target: The U.S. embassy in Amman along with the headquarters of Jordan's Intelligence service.
The Mideast bureau of the Associated Press reported at the time that Jordanian officials said Zarqawi's crew was planning to use to "a chemical bomb that would have killed as many as 20,000 people and caused large-scale destruction within a half-mile radius."
"The terror cell was also apparently planning to carry out simultaneous poison gas attacks against foreign diplomatic missions, including the heavily fortified U.S. Embassy in Amman, vital Jordanian public establishments like the prime minister's office and unspecified civilian targets," the wire service said.
Jordan's King Abdullah II confirmed the details of the attack, and publicly thanked his intelligence chief, Gen. Saad Kheir, saying that the arrests of Zarqawi's terrorists had "saved thousands of lives."
Had the plot gone forward, Abdullah said, Jordan would have seen "a crime that would have been unprecedented in the country in terms of the size of explosives mounted on the vehicles and the methods of carrying out the attacks or the civilian locations chosen."
In confessions later broadcast on ABC's "Nightline," one of the plotters revealed that he began training for the mission in 2001 in Afghanistan.
"After the fall of Afghanistan, I met Zarqawi again in Iraq," the al Qaeda operative said.
"In Iraq, I started training in explosives and poisons. I gave my complete obedience to Zarqawi."
"In Iraq, I started training in explosives and poisons. I gave my complete obedience to Zarqawi."
I think he should still follow Zarqawi
to hell.
Bump
(Denny Crane: "Every one should carry a gun strapped to their waist. We need more - not less guns.")
Shame that America and the whole world is in danger because of those monkeys from the stone age.
I don't think he had the capability. Sawing off people's heads up close and personal seems more his style.
This monster had all sorts of plans to kill as many people as possible. He lived only for the goal of destroying America and free people everywhere.
And all the media and the liberals can do is incessantly harp on his "final moments", and what may have happened to him on the stretcher.
Complete denial of reality.
You did read the part about the chemical attack in Jordan being foiled?
Yes. I guess he was capable after all, of at least inciting and planning big attacks. That video of him being inept with a gun himself was revealing though.
Hopefully, We got info leading to the identities and locations of these 300 anti-infedels.
WEll, lets see... the convoy had 23,000 pounds of chemical explosives and poison gas. The motive was certainly there. The Mukhabarat were the ones that told USAF where to put the nails on Zarqari's coffin. THeere was no love lostr there. To a radical Islamofascist, the Jordanians are American stooges for their cooperation.
They say any jackass can kick down a building, but it takes an architect to build one. The same thing is true of terrorist. He was a no-good bungler, but he might have done far more damage than he did.
May his disciples follow him into the embrace of a million Helen Thomases in Paradise.
This should be front page news.... Front page!!!! Yet it's buried...
The mainstream media were Vietnamized a long time ago. They cheer our losses (with pious, long faces) and bury the good news. I am very proud of our military. They have not been given proper support by Congress or the media, but they still out-class and out-fight anyone on the planet.
Many of our problems today stem from Bush Sr. cutting back on the military as if the world's troubles were over (to please the never-pleased liberals), plus Clinton's follies.
This guy says he met Zarqawi in Iraq after the fall of Afghanistan and began training for the Jordanian terror mission.
That can't be right.
Afghanistan fell in November, 2001.
We didn't invade Iraq until March, 2003.
AND WE ALL KNOW AL-QAEDA WAS NOT IN IRAQ BEFORE WE INVADED IRAQ!!!!!!
/FUMING SARCASM/
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