It’s hard to completely trust any news coming from an Arab country about terror-related arrests and discoveries, but in a typically vague announcement, Jordan says they’ve thwarted a plot to attack the US embassy with car bombs: Jordan Says Found Cars Laden with Explosives.

AMMAN (Reuters) - Jordanian authorities said on Saturday they had found cars carrying explosives that an underground group had planned to use to attack American interests, a senior security source told Reuters.

The source said an unspecified number of cars laden with explosives were found and the suspects who sought to use them had been arrested.

“The group planned attacks on American interests including the embassy and a number of U.S. organizations based in Jordan,” he said.

Senior security officials said earlier this month that cars carrying explosives had been driven into the kingdom from Syria. Jordan’s long desert border with Syria is patrolled by both sides, but smugglers slip in.