The following are excerpts from an interview with the commander of an Al-Qaeda cell in Jordan, 'Azmi Al-Juyusi, which aired on Al-Arabiya TV on May 19, 2005.
Al-Juyusi: In HeratI began training for Abu Mus'ab (Al-Zarqawi) – I had advanced training in the use of explosives and poisons. After that I took an oath of allegiance to Abu Mus'ab Al-Zarqawi, and swore to obey him. Then, Afghanistan fell and I met with Abu Mus'ab Al-Zarqawi once again in Iraq. After returning from Afghanistan to Iraq I met with Abu Mus'ab Al-Zarqawi. He was with Muwafaq 'Adwan, a Jordanian whom I knew in the past in Afghanistan. Abu Mus'ab instructed me to go to Jordan with Muwafaq 'Adwan, to establish the military operations in Jordan. He arranged for me to be smuggled into Jordan. When I arrived in Jordan, I met with one of Abu Mus'ab's people – a Syrian national called Haytham 'Omar Ibrahim, who arranged safe houses for me.
After that, Muwafaq and I began to gather the necessary intelligence on targets. Then we got hold of the chemicals needed for manufacturing explosives. I began to look for these chemicals at all of the companies that sell such chemicals. I managed to buy large quantities from all of these companies. I collected around twenty tons, which would be enough for all of the operations in Jordan. I began to produce explosives.
The cars were all loaded up. I thought of renting warehouses in Biyadir Wadi Al-Sir and bringing the cars there, so that they would be close to the intelligence headquarters, no more than a seven-minute drive. The cars would leave from Biyadir Wadi Al-Sir. There would be two or three people in each car. The Caprice would take the lead, and we thought of having a BMW get-away car, for those who'd stay alive. The men in the Caprice would be armed with RPGs, and their mission was to shoot and kill the guards. Then the big MAN truck, which has a plow attachment, would remove any roadblocks in its way. I took into account that even if there were a wall in its way it could destroy it and continue without stopping, and would reach the center of the headquarters, opposite the command center, the command's main building –there the truck would blow up. After it blew up there would be no more guards – they would all die. Any survivors would be in shock or wounded, or suffer internal bleeding, and wouldn't be able to fight. The other cars would come in slowly, one after the other, and would each go their way uninterrupted.
I believed that after the operation – and I am an explosives expert – the intelligence headquarters would be totally destroyed. There would be nothing left of it or anything around it. The destruction would even reach distant areas.
We used pre-paid calling cards to communicate. Whenever I had any suspicion, or if the line was too noisy, and I feared someone was tapping it… I didn't use it more than ten days. I destroyed it and brought a new one. Another way (of communicating) was messengers and letters from here to Syria and also the other way around. They would bring me messages, money, forged documents and passports, and everything I requested.
