Israel: August 19, 2005

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Three terrorists rockets were fired from the Jordanian port of Aqaba. All missed their targets (an American amphibious ship in the harbor, and two more targets in nearby Israel.) Police quickly arrested a Syrian, his two sons and an Iraqi, and charged them with carrying out the attack. The arrested men were working for Iraq based terrorists, and the 122mm Russian designed rockets were smuggled in from Iraq. 

 

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