The arrest of members of a suspected terrorist group in Jordan thwarted an attack that could have killed thousands of civilians, King Abdullah II of Jordan said Tuesday. The king said the country had "lived through an extremely delicate situation in recent days, but the hard work of dedicated security people divine protection has thwarted the plans of these criminals and saved the lives of thousands of civilians in what would have been a crime never before seen in the kingdom." His account came in a letter to the head of Jordan's intelligence services, Lt. Gen. Saad Khair. The Jordanian authorities have carried out a series of arrests of suspected terrorists in the past two weeks, and on Monday a government spokeswoman said a suspect was still being sought. But the king said Tuesday that all the members of the group had been arrested. He said his assessment of the magnitude of the threat was based on the "quantity of explosives found" in cars that had been seized, as well as the "manner in which the terror operation was to be carried out and the choice of civilian targets."
| And perhaps based on from whence the attackers came. From the north. |
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