JORDANIAN AUTHORITIES CAPTURE TERRORISTS

S E C R E T AMMAN 001523

SIPDIS

NOFORN

E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/02/2015
TAGS: PTER PHUM ASEC IZ SY JO
SUBJECT: JORDANIAN AUTHORITIES CAPTURE TERRORISTS

REF: A. 05 AMMAN 8829

B. TD-314/14051-06

C. TD-314/14536-06

Classified By: AMBASSADOR DAVID HALE FOR REASONS 1.4 (b and d).


1. (U) Jordanian dailies led with the GOJ's announcement that
the General Intelligence Directorate (GID) foiled a suicide
bombing plot by capturing three terrorists. GOJ spokesman
Nasser Judah said the captured terrorists planned to attack a
"vital civilian facility" in Amman. State-run TV showed
images of the three detained men, rifles, and bomb making
materials.


2. (S/NF) In late February GID arrested Iraqi nationals Abd
Al-Karim Khudyr Abbas al-Jumayli and Mohsen Mazloum Jassam
Lousi, and seized 18 sticks of explosives similar to the type
used in the November 2005 Hotel bombings (REF A). The GID
arrested Libyan national Mohammad Saeed Hamad Gheith Darsi -
reportedly the would-be suicide attacker - after he crossed
into Jordan from Syria on February 27. (REF C)


3. (U) According to press, the GID is working to capture four
other suspects who participated in the plot: Saudi national
Turki Nasser Abdullah, and Iraqi nationals Saad Fawzi Hatem
Muhyidddin Obeidi, Yousef Abdul Rahman Obeidi, and Saad
Fakhri Younis Nueimi.
HALE