Jordan

Security forces detained 11 militants linked to a suspected al Qaeda plot against Western and commercial targets in Amman that included assassinating diplomats and bombing embassies and shopping centers. The terrorist cell planned to use weapons and explosives smuggled in from Syria, and had prepared explosives “aimed at inflicting the heaviest human losses possible.”

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