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Jordan CW Plot Suspect Admits Meeting with Zarqawi From Thursday, June 30, 2005 issue.

Jordan CW Plot Suspect Admits Meeting with Zarqawi


A suspect in a foiled plot to detonate a chemical weapon in Jordan met beforehand n Iraq with fellow defendant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi to discuss the planned attacks, according to a videotaped confession played in court yesterday (see GSN, June 23).

The tape shows defendant Azmi al-Jayousi confessing that he planned to carry out attacks in Jordan, the Associated Press reported.

“I met with Abu Musab in Baghdad, who told me that a man called al-Jubouri will be the contact man between me and Abu Musab,” said Jayousi, one of 13 suspects in an alleged plan to attack Jordanian intelligence agency headquarters in Amman.

Jayousi also admitted to agreeing to kill Lt. Col., Mahmoud Obeidat, a military prosecutor.

“Abu Musab sent me [$70,000] and weapons with the so-called Jubouri as well as detonators to kill the prosecutor with a telecommunications device if we don’t succeed in shooting him,” Jayousi said on the tape.

A second tape played in court showed how the defendants made the chemicals and explosives they intended to use against the intelligence service and other sites in Amman (Associated Press, June 29).


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