Jordan: Hamas Preparing for Attacks
Charles Johnson
Wed May 10, 2006 at 2:08 pm PDT • Views: 158
Jordan has revealed new information about the Hamas “activists” they arrested last month; there were 20 of them: Jordan says Hamas trains recruits in Syria and Iran.
AMMAN (Reuters) - Jordan said on Wednesday that Hamas had tried to recruit activists for military training in Syria and Iran to stage possible attacks in Jordan and said it had found new weapons that included Iranian rocket launchers.
Government spokesman Nasser Joudeh told reporters details of the plot were revealed during interrogations of 20 Hamas militants arrested by security forces last month.
“Hamas was attempting to recruit elements in the Jordanian arena and trying to recruit elements from abroad to send to Syria and Iran to get military training,” Joudeh said.
Jordan said last month rocket launchers, detonators and explosives seized from a secret Hamas arms cache in the kingdom had been smuggled from Syria, where the Palestinian militant group’s exiled leadership is based.
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