Jordanian Suspects Confess to Chemical Plot

Nine men on trial in Jordan for allegedly planning a chemical attack in Amman have confessed to the crime, Deutsche Presse-Agentur reported today (see GSN, June 30).

“Our Sheikh Abu Musaab al-Zarqawi said that if we had chemical weapons we would have hit Tel Aviv and the traitor collaborator (Jordanian) regime,” said Hussein Sharif, one of the accused men, as quoted by the al-Hayat daily.

“I came back to Jordan to perform the Islamic duty of jihad and kill the infidel rulers and government officials who spread corruption for the interest of their American and Jewish masters,” said another defendant, Hassan Omar al-Samik.

The men planned to target Jordanian intelligence headquarters because it is the “main spear of infidelity,” al-Samik was quoted by al-Hayat as saying.

Four other fugitives, including al-Qaeda’s leader in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, are being tried in absentia (Deutsche Presse-Agentur/Khaleej Times, July 14).

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