Police detained several suspects on Saturday as the hunt widened for the attackers who fired and supplied the rockets that narrowly missed a U.S. Navy ship anchored in the bay of this Red Sea port best known for beach vacations and Mideast summits. Those arrested included Iraqis, Syrians, Egyptians and Jordanians, according to a Jordanian security official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to comment publicly. He would not give the number of detainees.Interior Minister Awni Yirfas told The Associated Press that security forces had found the launcher used to fire the three Katyusha rockets. Police found four more rockets when they seized the launcher in a warehouse in an industrial zone on a hillside overlooking Aqaba, state TV reported Saturday. The four rockets were defused, the report said. The newscast did not say whether anyone had been detained for Friday's attack.
| I expect the Jordanians will round up a bunch of people, and that they'll cull the herd until they find the guys who dunnit, those who haven't beat it back to Iraq anyway. They do take these thing seriously. |
A bit more, from al-Jizzles. No real detail yet...
An Iraqi has been arrested in Amman in connection with Friday's rocket attacks aimed at US warships moored in the port of Aqaba and at neighbouring Israel, according to a security source. "Security forces arrested the Iraqi suspect [on Saturday] while he was driving his car," the source said on condition of anonymity. AFP reports that four suspects, including one Iraqi, were arrested late on Saturday in Amman in connection with the rocket attacks. The Iraqi was one of four suspects being sought by authorities.