IN A turbulent court hearing yesterday, al-Qaida-linked suspects charged with plotting a massive chemical explosion in Jordan shouted insults at their military judges.

The prime suspect in an al-Qaida-linked plot to strike Jordan with chemical weapons threw his shoes at military judges during a stormy hearing in Amman and told them terror mastermind Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi will “chop off” their heads.

Jordan’s military prosecutor indicted 13 alleged Muslim militants today, including fugitive Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi, for an al-Qaida-linked plot to attack targets in the country with chemical and conventional weapons.