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August 19, 2005

Attackers Fire Missiles at U.S. Navy Ship

Topics: Terrorism

The AP(via Wash.Times) is reporting that attackers fired at least three rockets from Jordan early Friday, with one narrowly missing a docked U.S. Navy ship and killing a Jordanian soldier. It was the most serious militant Islamothug attack on the Navy since the USS Cole was bombed in 2000.

Another rocket fell close to a nearby airport in neighboring Israel, officials said. Jordanian and Israeli authorities said militants fired the Katyusha rockets from a warehouse in the Jordanian Red Sea port of Aqaba.

A group linked to al-Qaida claimed responsibility in an Internet statement. The statement purportedly from the Abdullah Azzam Brigades could not immediately be verified.

The U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet, based in Bahrain, said two American amphibious ships attached to the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit were docked in Aqaba, about 210 miles south of the capital, Amman, when the rockets were fired toward them.

The Abdullah Azzam group was among several that claimed responsibility for previous attacks on Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, including the Oct. 7 car bombing of a hotel in the resort of Taba, which borders Israel, and the July 23 Sharm el-Sheik bombings that killed at least 64 people. In typical Islamist fashion, the group claimed, "A group of our holy warriors ... targeted a gathering of American military ships docking in Aqaba port and also in Eilat port with three Katyusha rockets and the warriors returned safe to their headquarters."

That's Islamic terrorist-speak for what is better described as "a group of Islamic thugs, who have a distorted and perverted understanding of what is right and wrong, who are followers of a misguided faith led by bearded clerics teaching inhumane ideologies to rejects of civilized societies, unsuccessfully attempted to attack a U.S. Navy Ship while docked, missed, and subsequently ran away like dogs with their tails between their legs, in fear of being caught by an angry U.S. Marine.

Posted by Richard at August 19, 2005 12:15 PM

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