Editing 2000 millennium attack plots (section)

===Jordan bombing plots===
In Jordan, members of the Islamist terror organization al-Qaeda planned to bomb four sites: a fully booked Radisson hotel in [[Amman]], Jordan; the border between Jordan and [[Israel]]; a Christian church on [[Mount Nebo (Jordan)|Mount Nebo]]; and a site on the [[Jordan River]] where [[John the Baptist]] is said to have [[Baptism of Jesus|baptized Jesus]].<ref name=abc-us-millenium>{{cite news |title=Amman Radisson Targeted in Foiled Millennium Attack |url=https://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Terrorism/story?id=1296624 |publisher=American Broadcasting Company |access-date=February 4, 2015 |work=[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]] |date=November 9, 2005 |archive-date=October 28, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201028211618/https://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Terrorism/story?id=1296624 |url-status=live }}</ref> These locations were chosen to target tourists from the United States and Israel.<ref name="other"/> The most active participant was a [[Boston]] taxi driver named [[Raed Hijazi]].<ref name="other"/>

On November 30, 1999, Jordanian intelligence intercepted a call between Saudi citizen [[Abu Zubaydah]], the leader of the plot, and Khadr Abu Hoshar, a [[Palestinian people|Palestinian]] militant terrorist. In the conversation, Zubaydah stated, "The time for training is over." Sensing that the attack was imminent, Jordanian police arrested Hoshar and fifteen others on December 12, 1999.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Dissecting a Terror Plot From Boston to Amman|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/15/world/dissecting-a-terror-plot-from-boston-to-amman.html?pagewanted=all|work=The New York Times|date=January 15, 2001|access-date=February 18, 2017|archive-date=October 28, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201028211635/https://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/15/world/dissecting-a-terror-plot-from-boston-to-amman.html?pagewanted=all|url-status=live}}</ref>

Jordanian authorities put twenty-eight suspects on trial. Twenty-two of them were quickly found guilty. Six of them, thought to be linked to [[Osama bin Laden]], including Hijazi, were [[sentenced to death]]. Abu Zubaydah was sentenced to death ''[[trial in absentia|in absentia]]''.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Six Muslim militants sentenced to death for plotting to attack tourists in Jordan|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/six-muslim-militants-sentenced-to-death-for-plotting-to-attack-tourists-in-jordan-699684.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/six-muslim-militants-sentenced-to-death-for-plotting-to-attack-tourists-in-jordan-699684.html |archive-date=May 1, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|work=The Independent|date=September 19, 2000}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|title=U.S.-Jordanian sentenced to death|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/meast/02/11/jordan.terrorism/index.html?related|work=CNN|date=February 11, 2002|access-date=July 13, 2016|archive-date=September 1, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200901150900/http://edition.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/meast/02/11/jordan.terrorism/index.html?related|url-status=live}}</ref> Luai Sakra and [[Abu Musab al-Zarqawi]] were sentenced ''in absentia'' in 2002 for their part in the plot, which included using poison gas during the bombing.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Syrian Terror Suspect: Aladdin of the Black Forest|url=http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/syrian-terror-suspect-aladdin-of-the-black-forest-a-371214.html|work=Der Spiegel|date=August 15, 2005|access-date=July 13, 2016|archive-date=August 20, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160820132654/http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/syrian-terror-suspect-aladdin-of-the-black-forest-a-371214.html|url-status=live}}</ref>