Jordanian militant Abu Masab al- “Zarqawi had organized several operations in Jordan: an attack on several tourist sites, including [one that was foiled at] an American hotel in Amman, intended to mark the millennium…the assassination of U.S. diplomat Laurence Foley, on October 28, 2002; and a [thwarted] chemical-weapons attack on Amman.”
– Gilles Kepel and Jean-Pierre Milelli, eds., Al Qaeda In Its Own Words, Pages 244-245