A Syrian linked to an Iraqi-based terrorist group has been arrested as the prime suspect in the rocket attack that barely missed U.S. warships docked in the port of Aqaba, the Jordanian government said Monday. The government statement, read on state television, said the suspect, Mohammed Hassan Abdullah al-Sihly, plotted and carried out the attack along with two of his sons and an Iraqi.
I didn't find him in Thugburg.
| So "al-Qaeda in Jordan" turns out to be Pop and his two boys, plus an Iraqi? I'm impressed. |
The statement said the plotters were part of an Iraq-based terrorist group, which was not named.
| I'd sneer and say "not a very big one," but probably they're just the cannon fodder and there is something of an organization behind them. I'd guess it's al-Tawhid, or whatever Zark's mob calls itself this week. |
Al-Sihly, who lives in Amman, had been surveying sites for the Katyusha rocket attack in Aqaba since Aug. 6, the statement said. He was joined by his two sons — Abdullah and Abdul-Rahman — and Mohammed Hamid Hussein, the Iraqi, in "carrying out the heinous crime." Hussein, also known as Abu Mukhtar, was the leader of the Iraq-based group, the announcement said.
| He'd have probably been the cell's controller, and the only one of the four with any contact with the rest of the organization — and that only with a runner. |
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