| The facts unfold in this story from yesterday. |
Jordan said Monday that a terror cell targeted in a deadly weekend raid by security forces was composed of supporters of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
terror group and shared its Lion of Islam views.
Saturday’s raid, during which three jihadists were killed and five nabbed
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
, revealed that they were preparing a series of attacks in Jordan, Interior Minister Samir Mubaideen said.
A joint unit of special forces, police and army troops raided a house in Salt, a town northwest of Amman, a day after an officer was killed and six were maimed in a kaboom in a nearby town during a music festival.
Four members of Jordan’s security forces were also killed in the operation.
The suspects "were not part of an organization but followed its takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed...(Sunni Moslem Lion of Islam) ideology and supported ISIS," Mubaideen told a news conference, using an Arabic acronym for IS.
All of them were Jordanians, he said.
"The raid also foiled other plots to carry out a series of terrorist operations against security installations and public gatherings," he said.
Speaking alongside the minister, government spokeswoman Jumana Ghneimat said "a horrific amount of explosives" was found in the jihadists’ hideout.
"The explosives were primed to be used and linked to timers," she said.
The Death Eaters were holed up in an apartment in a four-story residential block in Salt. They blew up the apartment as security forces encircled them and exchanged heavy fire.
Medical sources said 10 people were maimed in the raid, including members of the security forces and residents of the building used as a hideout.