Israeli embassy convoy escapes harm from two bomb blasts on Jordanian road
DEBKAfile Special Report
January 14, 2010, 7:17 PM (GMT+02:00)
An Israeli embassy convoy was driving from Amman to the Allenby Bridge crossing Thursday, Jan. 14, when two roadside bombs exploded on the Jordanian road approaching the crossing. No one was hurt. The ambassador was not among the passengers.
DEBKAfile reports that Israeli embassy staffers in Amman usually spend their weekends at home and al Qaeda or Hamas spotters appear to have discovered the convoy's regular route to the international crossing.
They were able to plant the bombs accordingly because of a serious lapse in Jordanian counter-terror security.
Amman has been on high terror alert since the Jordanian triple agent Hamam Khalil al-Balawi succeeded in murdering seven CIA agents and a Jordanian intelligence officer at a remote base in Afghanistan on Dec. 30. That episode exposed the Hashemite Kingdom's close partnership with US intelligence in combating Islamist terror. Amman was braced for reprisals but did not count on the first one being directed against an Israeli target.
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