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  • Ten men planned to attack U.S., Israeli targets to be tried in Jordan

    09/08/2002 10:44:57 AM PDT · by knighthawk · 3 replies · 258+ views
    Jordan's military court will place 10 men on trial Wednesday on counts of conspiring to carry out attacks against U.S. and Israeli targets and possessing arms, officials said Sunday. According to AP, the 10 - all men aged between 22 and 55 - have no links to Osama bin Laden, Jordanian officials said. But prime suspect Waiel al-Shalabi, 29, allegedly received training in bin Laden-run camps in Afghanistan, the officials added. Al-Shalabi, a Palestinian-Jordanian born in Kuwait, fled the American bombing on bin Laden's stronghold in Tora Bora, Afghanistan, in December, the officials said. The court will formally indict the...
  • Al-Qaeda targets Jordan and King Hussein

    07/06/2002 1:20:04 AM PDT · by BlackJack · 30 replies · 765+ views
    New evidence of Arabs fleeing the US-led bombing in Afghanistan to open a new front in the Arab world has emerged in Jordan. The authorities in Amman say they have arrested 10 Jordanians accused of planning to carry out attacks on American and Israeli targets in the kingdom. They say they were led by Wail al-Shalabi, a Palestinian-Jordanian fighter who was arrested in April after returning from Afghanistan. The suspects' lawyer, Mohammed Duwaik, says Mr Wail has confessed to fighting in the Afghan Jihad. The arrests come in the wake of a wave of detentions in Yemen, Tunisia and Morocco....