Jordan acknowledges al-Qaida cells

Monday, December 16, 2002

AMMAN, Jordan -- Al-Qaida has set up terrorist cells in Jordan, but security forces have succeeded in uprooting them, Jordanian officials said Sunday, a day after announcing the arrest of two suspected members of Osama bin Laden's terror network accused of killing a U.S. diplomat.

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