New Tape Is Attributed to Wanted Qaeda Figure

An audiotape broadcast Friday and attributed to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian militant with ties to Al Qaeda, acknowledged that the terrorist group was behind a failed plot to destroy Jordan's secret service headquarters. The speaker also warned that the United States and its allies faced "terrifying events."

But the speaker on the seven-minute tape denied that the plot involved a chemical weapon, as Jordanian officials have maintained. Introducing himself as Mr. Zarqawi, he said, "God knows, if we did possess it, we wouldn't hesitate one second to use it to hit Israeli cities, such as Eilat and Tel Aviv."

The tape was broadcast on a Web site known as a clearinghouse for statements by Al Qaeda. Excerpts were broadcast by the Dubai-based news channel Al Arabiya.

Earlier this week, a statement attributed to Mr. Zarqawi appeared on the same site, claiming responsibility for an April 24 suicide boat attack on Iraq's oil terminal in the Persian Gulf. Three American service members were killed in the attack.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/01/international/middleeast/01tape.html

Funny how these tapes always show up at times convenient for BushCo.

You'd think some media outlet would have looked at the coincidences by now.

at work last week, "potential to kill 80,000...chemical weapons warehouse..." and then...nothing. No big story, no media whore sludgery, no video of weapons grade X, no talking heads. I figured it was nothing. Like those chemical shells dredged up in S.Iraq by the dutch, just old shells. So what was really found in Jordan?