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TERROR CELL OF 11 NABBED IN JORDAN
TERROR CELL OF 11 NABBED IN JORDAN
The authorities in Jordan said, on Sunday 10/21/2012, they have arrested 11 Islamist militants alleged to have planned attacks on Western diplomats and shopping centres in the capital. The authorities said they had seized large quantities of ammunition, machine guns and other items such as computers.
Government spokesman Samih Maayta said the suspects were arrested in the past few days and were in police custody. He said said the suspects had brought in weapons from neighbouring Syria, and Al Qaeda operatives in Iraq had helped them manufacture home-made explosives. The plot was said to have been in preparation since 06/2012.
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Jordanian intelligence were monitoring the plotters, including their experiments with explosives. “this was an al-Qaeda plot timed for the anniversary of the 9 November attacks on Amman in 2005” an intelligence official said (see – Amman Bombings). The men were training to use “suicide bombers using explosive belts and booby-trapped cars”, said another security source. the cell had been fighting for “some period” alongside rebel groups in Syria (see – SYRIAN DILEMA).
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The plotters “had planned to bring TNT explosives and mortar shells from Syria”, state news agency Petra said. The targets included “shopping centres, residential areas, diplomats and foreign nationals”. Jordan border Syria and is home to at least 200,000 Syrians who have fled the conflict, more than any other country in the region.
News of the alleged plot came as the country prepares to vote for a new parliament in January. Jordan is a key ally of the US in the region.
Jordan has its own militant Salafi Movement – ultra-conservatives who want Islamic Sharia law to be implemented in Jordan as a prelude to an Islamic state (see – Salafi Threat).
Four of the suspects were identified as (1) Ahmad Mohammad Abd Alhadi abu Taha; (2) Mahmoud Younes Ibrahim Manaa;(3) Alaa Aldin Mohammad Ragheb Derbas and (4) Fawzi Abd Aljabar Hussain Hussain.
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