Jordan Shuts Down Al Qaeda Operation!

[Tuckerfan]

Let's hear it for Jordan! (http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/04/26/jordan.terror/index.html)The plot would have been more deadly than anything al Qaeda has done before, including the September 11 attacks, according to the Jordanian government.

Among the alleged targets were the U.S. Embassy, the Jordanian prime minister's office and the headquarters of Jordanian intelligence.

[Thaumaturge]

Good news!
However, my gut tells me that it's only a matter of time before some idiocy like this succeeds somewhere. That doesn't invalidate the success here though, I'm sure the Jordinians are very relieved.

[if6was9]

Woo Hoo! Jordan shut down ONE WHOLE al Qaeda operation? Really? ONE WHOLE operation? Wow! Glad they're on our side.... :rolleyes:

[Tuckerfan]

Woo Hoo! Jordan shut down ONE WHOLE al Qaeda operation? Really? ONE WHOLE operation? Wow! Glad they're on our side.... :rolleyes:
Well, considering the alternative, you know, lots of innocents being killed, I'd say that it was a pretty good thing.

[Ogre]

Geezus, why can't this be in the Pit? If6was9, your post was stupid, miserly, and small-minded. Jordan shut down the biggest al-Qaeda operation in history, and earned for themselves a higher place on the al-Q shitlist. For an Islamic nation with a large problem with Muslim fundies themselves, that took a huge set of brass balls.

From another link (http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1083013423133_78422623/?hub=World):The bomb alone, officials have said, could have killed at least 20,000 people. But the chemical attack could have been even deadlier.

The plan, officials said, called for a careful explosion of a new combination of 71 chemicals, including nerve gas, blistering and choking agents, that would have produced a mile-wide toxic cloud for which their is no known antidote.It's a big fucking deal.

[Reeder]

I saw this on Fark days ago.

Glad to know they have an inside somewhere.

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=918788

[Ogre]

Pardon me for misstating a point. It hardly took brass balls to dismantle a bomb attack aimed at their capital city. It was an act of necessity. It was still a giant deal, though.

[if6was9]

Geezus, why can't this be in the Pit? If6was9, your post was stupid, miserly, and small-minded. Jordan shut down the biggest al-Qaeda operation in history,... <snip>
Jordan SAID they shut down the largest operation in history..... of course they're not going to say that it really wasn't all that big......








Oh yeah... miserly?????? WTF does that mean? :p Check here (http://www.dictionary.com/) before you post big words you don't understand....

[Miller]

Oh yeah... miserly?????? WTF does that mean? :p Check here (http://www.dictionary.com/) before you post big words you don't understand....

From dictionary.com:

miserly

adj : used of persons or behavior; characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity; "a small miserly man"


Fits you to a T. For that matter, so does this (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=execrable), this (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=ignoramus), this (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=imbecile), and this (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=asshole).

[Miller]

Aw, crap. This ain't the pit, is it? Mods, I apologize, that was totally inappropriate for this forum.

[if6was9]

From dictionary.com:

miserly

adj : used of persons or behavior; characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity; "a small miserly man"


Fits you to a T. For that matter, so does this (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=execrable), this (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=ignoramus), this (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=imbecile), and this (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=asshole).
Opinions vary...

[if6was9]

Aw, crap. This ain't the pit, is it? Mods, I apologize, that was totally inappropriate for this forum.
Yeah. Kinda....

[drewbert]

Incredible. We've got fifty-seven redundant Iraq threads going on, and this thread falls off the front page almost instantly.

Did no one else get a shiver realizing this was only days from happening?

[Philster]

Ya know, this is getting more attention than a thread would on Sept. 10, 2001.

When you foil a plot, it gets hardly any recognition. Didn't some alert agent stop a plan to wipe out a huge part of LAX on New Year's Eve in 2000-2001?

And way back in 1993, when the towers were bombed for the first time, no one was as scared as they were in 2001 when the towers fell.

It should reflect no differently on the securty failure.

The way I see it, 1993 was the wake up call...but the results didn't impact us because the towers stayed there. They emboldened us to feel impervious. But we still had a 9-11-2001 type issue to deal with. But since total tragedy was avoided, we could ignore it. I mean, Islamic Fundamentalists - the enemy - marched onto our soil, exploded a weapon, and we didn't open up a war?

If a country launched a nuke at Boston, and it missed and detonated way out inr the Atlantic, wouldn't we want to react to that just as we would if the damn nuke actually hit Boston!?

Same here in Jordan. Tragedy avoided = mostly ignored.

[UncleBeer]

Another win for the good guys. Good news all around. The Jordanians are to be congratulated for work well done.

[Zebra]

I've always loved their almonds.



I'm glad this plot was foiled and I hope the people there realize just how a chemical bomb would affect the entire population, not just American officals.

[Doctor Jackson]

I knew Michael was up to something, what with bailing early on his baseball career and all...

Oh, you mean the OTHER Jordan! The one with slightly less net worth than Michael? OH! Good job to them!

...but can they slam?