Jordan foils major terror plot, officials say

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Source: CNN

Amman, Jordan (CNN) -- Jordan's intelligence department fouled "a major terrorist plot" that targeted "shopping centers, residential areas, diplomats and foreign nationals" in Jordan, the country's state news agency reported Sunday.

The terrorists called their plan "9/11 (2)," suggesting it was set to happen on the seventh anniversary of the last al Qaeda attack in Jordan when suicide bombs exploded in an Amman hotel November 9, 2005, the report said.

The plot, which was in the preliminary stages, involved "a group of 11 terrorists associated with the ideology of al Qaeda," Petra reported.

All 11 suspects are Jordanian citizens who moved in and out of Syria, government spokesman Samih al-Maaytah said on state television Sunday.

Read more: http://edition.cnn.com/2012/10/21/world/meast/jordan-terror-plot-foiled/

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1. Good! I'm glad they stopped that.

[Alamuti Lotus]

2. apparently the Jordanian dictator seeks increased US funding for repressive security apparatus

knowing their audience, makes up big story about "terra"..

Or assuming any part of the story is true, this is interesting:

All 11 suspects are Jordanian citizens who moved in and out of Syria

Can it be assumed, then, that the accused have ties to the terrorist insurgency there?--rebel movements supported by the dictator of Jordan, I must remind. When the US supported the anti-Soviet factions in Afghanistan, it was a few years before the "blowback" period began and the anti-communist fighters used their new experience and armaments against some of their former patrons; this error appears to be moving in real-time.

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3. Well, I'm glad since I will be in Amman on Nov. 17.

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4. Blowback. In other words, AQ is using Syria as a staging area and safe zone, just as it has Libya.

In their preoccupation with regime change operations, the neocons have again succeeded in widening the conflict and base of operations for the Jihadi groups that have been recruited to bring down the Syrian regime. That's apparent in the last paragraph below:

Suicide bombers were being selected to carry out attacks against two major shopping malls "in order to draw the attention of the security services away from" the "main objectives in Abdoun, in West Amman," the report said.

"Their objective was to create a highly destructive explosive that would cause the highest number of casualties and extensive physical damage," Petra reported. "They had planned to bring TNT explosives and mortar shells from Syria, exploiting the ongoing crisis there."