Aqaba attack may signal new Zarqawi front in Jordan

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Aqaba attack may signal new Zarqawi front in Jordan

AMMAN (Reuters) - A rocket attack which narrowly missed two U.S. warships in Jordan may be a signal Iraq's al Qaeda leader Abu Musab al Zarqawi has opened a new front against Washington's closest Arab ally, security experts said on Sunday.

The two U.S warships were likely to be carefully chosen targets, the experts said. The vessels are among those that have been regularly docking and unloading supplies in the Red Sea port of Aqaba since the U.S. led the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

Jordanian intelligence experts say the attack using Katyusha rockets indicates Zarqawi may favour expanding military attacks to pro-U.S. ally Jordan to hurt Washington's war effort in Iraq.

"Zarqawi appreciates more than ever that by hitting the U.S. military in Jordan he would score not just a symbolic victory but maybe disrupt a hitherto safe supply route for the U.S. army into bases in the western desert (of Iraq)," said one intelligence expert and official who requested anonymity.

[Autumn]

1. Wait a minute

didn't they just kill him two weeks ago?:wtf: Oh never mind must have caught that on fox.

[ConcernedCanuk]

2. It should come as no suprise - "sleeping with the enemy" has a price . .

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From the posted Article:

"This is the first time they actually penetrated in a well coordinated military operation. Zarqawi will have learned from this how to conduct a military operation in Jordan even if it missed its target...," one security official said.

The incident has stoked fears in a tightly policed country that has not seen the kind of attacks on tourist resorts and Westerners that have taken place elsewhere.

"The possibilities now exist of an increase in terror attacks and wider targets. It's unavoidable we have now become targeted like Saudi Arabia and Egypt," said Mahmoud Kharabsheh, a prominent deputy and a former senior intelligence official.
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I suppose us Canuks have a turn coming jus cuz we're neigbours

Thanks George . .

We were all ALOT safer before you went on your heal-bent-for-whatever crusade . . .