Al Qaeda group claims Aqaba, Eilat rocket attacks

Posted by Robert on August 19, 2005 12:54 PM

Hmm. Maybe those missiles fired from Jordan weren't all that moderate after all. From [1] AFP, :

DUBAI and AQABA, Jordan -- An Al Qaeda linked group claimed on August 19 rocket attacks near US warships moored in the Red Sea port of Aqaba and into a neighbouring Israeli resort killing a Jordanian soldier.

The group, the Al Qaeda Organization in the Levant and Egypt, said in a statement posted on an Islamic website that its guerrillas fired "three Katyusha rockets" on the Aqaba and Eilat ports.

The US military said there had been no American casualties.

A total of three Katyusha rockets were fired from a warehouse in Aqaba, landing in the port, a site close to a military hospital and next to the airport in the nearby Israeli resort of Eilat, Jordan said....


Article printed from Jihad Watch: http://www.jihadwatch.org/2005/08/al-qaeda-group-claims-aqaba-eilat-rocket-attacks.html

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