“Qaeda” group claims rocket attack on U.S. ship (Yahoo/Reuters). The Jordanian attack was launched from an industrial warehouse area near Aqaba, Jordan. Reuters has the militants’ supposed statement.
NYT: “AMMAN, Jordan, Aug. 19 – A rocket was fired early today at two American naval ships docked in southern Jordan, killing a Jordanian soldier and marking the first attack on American military ships in the region in five years, American and Jordanian officials said.
“A rocket was fired at the same time from apparently the same area at an airport in a neighboring Israeli port, hitting a stretch of road and wounding a taxi driver. … A third projectile was fired at a Jordanian hospital around the southern port of Aqaba but did no damage.”
The Diplomatic Times reports that “[t]wo U.S. Navy ships left the Jordanian port of Aqaba after three rockets were fired at the ships. ‘They missed their targets and hit a warehouse and a hospital, killing a Jordanian soldier, and striking the Israeli port of Eilat,’ according to Al-Jazeera and other publications.”
