Al-Qaida claimed responsibility for last week’s rocket attack in a Jordanian Red Sea port. “Your brothers in the Al-Qaida organization in Iraq have been planning the Aqaba raid for a while,” the group’s Iraqi chapter said in an Internet statement Tuesday, referring to the Jordanian port where U.S. Navy vessels were targeted.
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