Jordan thwarts al-Qaeda chemical bomb plot

Members of the network, who were arrested or killed, also planned attacks on the prime minister's office and the US embassy in Amman, the officials said on state television but did not give details on those targets.

Several suspects, including Jordanian ringleader Azmi al-Jayussi who was recruited in Iraq, were shown on television which aired their confessions.

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Jordan's King Abdullah II said on April 13 that the security services had dismantled a 'terror network', thwarting plans by the group to commit 'a crime never before seen in the kingdom' which would have killed thousands.

The television showed jerry cans said to contain chemicals, which officials did not name, and trucks 'that the terrorists planned to load with 20 tons of chemical explosives in a suicide attack against the General Intelligence Department'.