{"id":7285,"date":"2004-04-17T13:41:27","date_gmt":"2004-04-17T18:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2004\/04\/17\/curious\/"},"modified":"2004-04-17T13:41:27","modified_gmt":"2004-04-17T18:41:27","slug":"curious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2004\/04\/curious\/","title":{"rendered":"Curious"},"content":{"rendered":"

This report says<\/a><\/p>\n

Two members of an al Qaeda cell connected to top terror master Abu Musab al-Zarqawi have been caught in Jordan with chemical weapons and poisonous gas for a planned attack that Jordanian officials say would have killed up to 20,000 people.<\/p>\n

The officials told the London-based newspaper al-Hayat on Friday that the al Qaeda plotters planned to launch a WMD attack against a Jordanian Military Intelligence installation, the US embassy in Amman and a government building in the country. <\/p>\n

According to the Israeli newspaper Maariv, the al Qaeda terrorists managed to smuggle three cars packed with explosives into Amman. Jordanian security forces found a chemical charge in one vehicle.<\/p>\n

“The bomb, had it been detonated, could have affected people in a one kilometer radius and cause the deaths of up to 20,000 people,” Jordanian officials told Maariv<\/p>\n

This plot was stopped on Monday.<\/p>\n

Another Report<\/a> says:<\/p>\n

Jordan’s King Abdullah revealed on Saturday that vehicles reportedly containing chemical weapons and poison gas that were part of a deadly al Qaeda bomb plot came from Syria, the country named by U.S. weapons inspector David Kay last year as a likely repository for Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction.<\/p>\n

I haven’t seen this story reported anywhere I looked in the blogosphere so far. I was surprised to not find it mentioned at Little Green Footballs and a Google News search only found the story I referenced. So if this is credible I am surprised at the lack of attention it has received thus far.<\/p>\n

Update: The story has now been picked up by InstaPundit<\/a> which refers to the NewsMax story and newer one from the BBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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