Diabolical al Qaeda terrorists confessed yesterday to plotting to attack the U.S. Embassy and other targets in Jordan with sophisticated chemical bombs that could have wiped out 80,000 people.
Azmi al-Jayousi, leader of the terror cell, said the fiendish plan also targeted the headquarters of Jordanian intelligence and the prime minister’s office.
The plot aimed to use trucks loaded with explosives and chemicals to unleash massive poison clouds, Jordanian officials said.
The authorities said a group of 10 suspects planned to pack the truck bombs with deadly cocktails of 71 lethal chemicals – including blistering agents, nerve gas and choking agents – and then simultaneously crash them into their targets.
In a confession aired on Jordanian state TV, al-Jayousi, the head of the Jordanian cell of al Qaeda, admitted he was schooled in explosives and poisons in Afghanistan, then plotted in Iraq with Jordanian militant Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi, a close associate of Osama bin Laden.
“I took explosives courses, high level, poisons, then I pledged allegiance to [al-Zarqawi], to obey him without any questioning,” said al-Jayousi, who had marks on his face and neck.
Another suspect, car mechanic Hussein Sharif Hussein, said al-Jayousi recruited him and asked him to buy and modify trucks so they could crash through gates and walls.
Upon exploding, the truck bombs would have released a toxic cloud that would have extended for three miles over Amman, the capital.
And there are still those who are asking why we are fighting the war against terrorism.
My first thought when I read this was where did they get the chemicals?
Can anyone say Syria via Iraq? I told you we would find them…
Of course Syria via Iraq. My point exactly. I keep telling people the question is not why aren’t there WMD but WHERE are the WMD. I just hope we find them before they find us.
those smug bas#%$ds are just itching for their comeuppance! Any idiot could follow that trail, hell even Katie Couric was onto it when she wished that Saddam had fled to Syria!
go look at Newsmax.com and read the article about this…
here is the link:
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/4/27/164917.shtml
very interesting… it has a link between Iraq and Al Quaida and a link between Iraq and WMD all in one article…
Thanks madbarr. Great article. My suspicions were always on Syria hiding Saddams stash. I never for a moment thought there never were any weapons. One thing in our favor in this war on terror is that the terrorists, when caught, seem to like to brag.
I love it when they do that… especially when it cofirms President Bush’s stance on the WMD issues and the overall war on terror… makes the likes of Kerry et al. look stupid… as if that is actually that hard.
Trouble is the mainstream media doesn’t give this kind of story enough, if any, coverage.