AMMAN - Fifteen suspected terrorists, including three Saudis, go on trial before Jordan's State Security Court on Monday on charges of planning attacks on targets inside Jordan including the US embassy, judicial sources said Sunday.They said one of the defendants of the network called "Abu Sayyaf Group" is Saud Mohammad Khalayleh, a cousin of the Jordanian fugitive Ahmad Fadeel Khalayleh, better known as Abu Mussab Zarqawi who is sought for attacks on US-led forces in Iraq. The cell also includes three Saudi nationals who are at large and will be tried in absentia, the sources said.
According to the indictment statement, the 15 people originally planned to go to Afghanistan after US forces entered the country in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States. "But, after they found that their mission was impossible, they replaced it with carrying terror attacks on American targets in Jordan including the US embassy," the statement said.