Jordan Says It Broke Plot for Terror Strikes

[PfcHammer]

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/11/international/middleeast/11JORD.html?ex=1082260800&en=d4f51b313f11e4ca&ei=5006&partner=ALTAVISTA1

Jordan Says It Broke Plot for Terror Strikes

Published: April 11, 2004

AMAN, Jordan, April 10 (Reuters) — Jordanian authorities said Saturday they had found cars carrying explosives that an underground group had planned to use to attack American interests, a senior security official said.

An unspecified number of cars with explosives were found and the suspects who sought to use them were arrested, the official said. "The group planned attacks on American interests including the embassy and a number of U.S. organizations based in Jordan," he said.

Security officials said earlier this month that cars with explosives had been driven into Jordan from Syria. Jordan's desert border with Syria is patrolled, but smugglers slip in.

Officials said that they had uncovered a group planning attacks in the kingdom and had arrested some suspects who are now under interrogation. Three others got away, and state television has run their pictures, appealing to Jordanians to give the police information on their whereabouts.

[MSgt213]

1. Well the terrorist obviously told Jordan when and were they were going to

strike.

[jobycom]

2. Either that, or

they have smarter leaders than we do. Oh wait, that's a given, isn't it?