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Jordan thwarts Daesh plot
[ARABNEWS] Jordan said on Monday that it thwarted a ISIS plot that included plans for a series of attacks last November on security installations, shopping malls and moderate religious figures, state media reported.State news agency Petra said that the country’s intelligence department had tossed in the calaboose Book 'im, Mahmoud! 17 members of the cell and confiscated weapons and explosives that the murderous Moslem group had planned to use in the operation. The statement said the cell had staged a series of bank robberies and car thefts to finance the plot, and manufactured homemade explosives from material bought at local markets. Members of the cell robbed banks in the cities of Russayfah and Zarqa, to the northeast of the capital Amman. Investigations revealed that the terrorist cell had prepared comprehensive plans for executing its operations, conducted surveillance operations to examine targets, and developed a mechanism for carrying out their attacks. Mahmoud Irdaizat, a retired Jordanian major general and a former director of the Center for Strategic Studies at the King Abdullah II Academy for Defense Studies, told Arab News on Monday that despite the terrorist militia’s defeat in Iraq and in Syria, it was still active ideologically and had sympathizers and supporters in many places. "ISIS (ISIS) has collapsed geographically and its so-called Islamic state is pronounced dead in Iraq and in Syria, but it continues to be active in various places across the globe, be it in Jordan or in Sinai or even in the West. "I don’t think we should just sit and relax after their (terrorists) collapse in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... and Raqqa. Any reluctance to keep pressure on them would lead them to grow stronger again. What is needed now is a formulated international strategy to counter the terrorists’ ideology, with a collective international effort to persuade new generations not to embrace ISIS thought," he said. Posted by: Fred 2018-01-09 |
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