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.

Al-Qaida plotted bomb and poison gas attacks against the US Embassy and other targets in Jordan, suspects confessed in a videotape broadcast on Jordanian state television.