Israeli Channel 12 television published a report showing how Jordanian secret services are successfully thwarting one terrorist attack after another against Israel.
About six weeks ago, Jordanian intelligence reportedly exposed a plan to place explosives on a truck to blow up the Allenby border crossing. The information, based on foreign sources, was published a day after a Jordanian truck driver shot dead three Israelis in a deadly attack at the Allenby checkpoint.
A month and a half ago, Jordanian intelligence agents arrested four members of a terrorist cell in Solta, west of Amman, and discovered a weapons laboratory containing several explosive devices. Jordanian intelligence suspects that the detainees planned to install these devices on a truck and detonate it at the Allenby checkpoint.
All of the suspected terrorists are Jordanian citizens and the cell was formed locally, without the involvement of Iran, Hezbollah militants or other outside forces. Jordan decided not to disclose the incident to avoid public outcry, given anti-Israel sentiment in the kingdom and discontent over Jordan’s security cooperation with Israel.
It is reported that in the past two months, at least three terrorist cells that were recruited by Hezbollah via the Internet and intended to carry out actions aimed at destabilizing the situation in the kingdom have been neutralized in Jordan.
Previously, Kursor wrote that a joint Jordanian-Israeli investigation into the terrorist attack at the Allenby checkpoint, which resulted in the deaths of three Israelis on September 8, showed that the terrorist driver, a Jordanian citizen, was examined on the Israeli side. However, the weapon he used in the attack was not found.
