Police foil al-Qaia terror plot in Jordan

Jordanian police have foiled a planned suicide bombing by al-Qaida in the kingdom and arrested two Iraqi militants and a Libyan, state-run media said.

Jordanian police have foiled a planned suicide bombing by al-Qaida in the kingdom and arrested two Iraqi militants and a Libyan, state-run media said.

An unidentified security official said the militants planned to attack a “vital civilian facility,” but the target was not further described, the official Petra news agency reported.

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