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AMMAN, Jordan — One of at least three missiles fired from a poor neighborhood of Aqaba, Jordan, narrowly missed a U.S. Navy ship docked at the city's port Friday, but left one Jordanian soldier dead and another wounded.
Jordanian officials searched for four suspects who may be tied to an Al Qaeda-linked group that claimed responsibility in an Internet statement.
Originally posted by dbates
Most likely the attacker had a home-made device or an unguided RPG and didn't know how to use it very well. Those things are not deadly accurate. As for why they were shooting at a US ship, there are many reasons. The US stands behind Israel for the most part, the US is seen as a big bully, bragging rights to your friends.
AMMAN, Jordan - Attackers fired at least three rockets from Jordan early Friday, with one narrowly missing a docked U.S. Navy ship and killing a Jordanian soldier. It was the most serious militant attack on the Navy since the USS Cole was bombed in 2000.
Another rocket fell close to a nearby airport in neighboring Israel, officials said. Jordanian and Israeli authorities said militants fired the Katyusha rockets from a warehouse in the Jordanian Red Sea port of Aqaba.
A group linked to al-Qaida claimed responsibility in an Internet statement. The statement purportedly from the Abdullah Azzam Brigades could not immediately be verified.
The Abdullah Azzam group was among several that claimed responsibility for previous attacks on Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, including the Oct. 7 car bombing of a hotel in the resort of Taba, which borders Israel, and the July 23 Sharm el-Sheik bombings that killed at least 64 people.
"A group of our holy warriors ... targeted a gathering of American military ships docking in Aqaba port and also in Eilat port with three Katyusha rockets and the warriors returned safe to their headquarters," the statement said.
The attacks come amid a time of tension in the region marked by Israel's withdrawal from the Palestinian Gaza Strip and the Egyptian attacks. Islamic extremists have long criticized Jordan's U.S.-allied moderate government for its peace treaty with Israel and close ties with the West.
The three Katyusha rockets — weapons routinely used by Palestinian militants and Lebanon's Hezbollah group in attacks against Israel — were fired from an Aqaba warehouse rented this week by four people holding Egyptian and Iraqi nationalities, Jordan's state-run Petra news agency reported citing preliminary investigations.
The warehouse is in an isolated, hilltop industrial district overlooking Aqaba.
Originally posted by PsychevolvedApe
So you assume because these people are 'terrorists' that this was 'home-made'? Why don't you do your research than come in here with facts cause opinions are a waste of ATS' upload space.
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One hit a nearby warehouse, killing a Jordanian soldier, wire service reports said. Another slammed into a taxi traveling near the airport in Israel's nearby Red Sea resort of Eilat, but did not explode
AMMAN, Jordan - 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.
The statement said the plotters were part of an Iraq-based terrorist group, which was not named.
Originally posted by PsychevolvedApe
So you assume because these people are 'terrorists' that this was 'home-made'? Why don't you do your research than come in here with facts cause opinions are a waste of ATS' upload space.