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Rockets fired at US ship in Aqaba

Jordanian soldier killed

AFP, Aqaba
A Jordanian soldier was killed yesterday when unidentified attackers fired three rockets near US warships moored in the Red Sea port of Aqaba and into a neighbouring Israeli resort.
The US military confirmed the attacks but said there had been no American casualties.
A total of three Katyusha rockets were fired from a warehouse in Aqaba, landing in the port, a site close to a military hospital and next to the airport in the nearby Israeli resort of Eilat, Jordan said.
"The two US Marine ships docked at the port of Aqaba were not hit," Interior Minister Awni Yervas said. "An investigation is underway to determine the cause of the explosions."
There was no indication over who might have been behind the strikes, which come in the midst of Israel's historic pullout from the Gaza Strip, its first ever withdrawal from Palestinian territory.
One soldier was hit at the dock-
side in Aqaba and taken to hospital where he died of his wounds, a security source said. Another was injured.
A statement from the US Fifth Fleet in Bahrain said the rocket flew over the USS Ashland and USS Kearsarge which were moored in the port and exploded in a warehouse on the nearby pier.
"The warehouse sustained an approximate eight-foot hole in the roof of the building. No sailors or Marines were injured in this attack," it said.
Lieutenant Commander Charly Brown later told AFP that both the USS Ashland and USS Kearsarge -the only US ships in Aqaba at the time -- left the port immediately following the attack.
Earlier this month, Israel warned its citizens to steer clear of Jordan, saying there had been an increase in the threat of attacks against tourists.
The Israeli navy was put on a high state of alert after the attack on their side of the border, which destroyed a car near the airport in
Eilat.
"On the Israeli side one or two (Katyushas) fell on the airport area, without causing any victims," said Israeli Defence Minister Shaul Mofaz.
"I have telephoned the advisor of King Abdullah II with a view to coordinating efforts to prevent such actions," he said.
"There have been attempts in the past, including in Eilat, by terrorists to infiltrate and carry out attacks, stemming from Jordan and Egypt," he said.
The Katyusha-style weapon is usually used by Shiite fundamentalist movement Hezbollah, which was instrumental in ejecting Israeli troops from south Lebanon in 2000.
The Jordanian statement said the depot where the rockets had been stored had been let out to a group of four Egyptians and Iraqis just a few days ago.
US warships have been targeted in the past. In October 2000, 17 US sailors were killed when two suicide bombers on an inflatable raft blew themselves up alongside the USS Cole, a destroyer, in Yemen's southern port of Aden.
Aqaba is strategically important to Jordan as its only seaport.
Jordan itself boosted security at tourist resorts and in populated areas in the wake of the deadly bombings in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh last month.
One of the most stable countries in the Middle East, Jordan is one of only three Arab states to have diplomatic relations with Israel but, unlike the Red Sea resorts of Egypt, it is not a regular destination for Israelis.
The kingdom, the home country of Iraq's most wanted man Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, has broken up a number of al-Qaeda linked networks suspected of plotting attacks against US and other Western targets in Jordan.
Zarqawi, who has a 25 million dollar bounty on his head and is accused of masterminding some of the bloodiest attacks in Iraq was condemned to death in absentia in April for the 2002 murder of a US diplomat in Amman.
Aqaba, the most southerly town in Jordan, is today best known as a diving and beach resort although it has some industrial activities including exports of phosphate.