Jordan detained "several" suspects, a number of whom were Egyptians and Iraqis, in conjunction with the Aqaba rocket attack, a source close to the investigation told the Deutsche Presse Agentur (dpa) said Saturday. The arrests were made in the course of raids that began Friday night and continued Saturday in the vicinity of the coastal resort city. Most of those detained carried unlicensed weapons or were somehow linked to the firing of the rockets said the source. The Jordanian owner of a warehouse, the roof of which was used Friday to launch three rockets Katyusha, was among those detained. One of the rockets hit the southern Israeli port of Eilat without causing serious damage. Another rocket narrowly missed a U.S. navy ship that was docked at the port of Aqaba since Monday, hitting a training centre for the Jordanian army, killing one soldier and wounding another. Authorities were pursuing four people who rented the warehouse: two Iraqis, one Egyptian and a Syrian. --SP 2025 Local Time 1725 GMT
