Jordanian authorities have charged four men, including a finance ministry employee, with plotting to carry out "terrorist" attacks against US and Israeli targets in Jordan, newspapers reported Saturday.
Three of the suspects were arrested on January 31, but the finance ministry employee escaped, said Al-Rai and Al-Dustour dailies, which published excerpts of the indictment.
Two of the men - a worker at a stone quarry and a sales agent - were said to be Kuwaiti-born. The third was identified as having had "military training". There were no further details on their identities.
Military prosecutor Fawwaz Utum has accused the four of "plotting to carry out terrorist activities" and the "illegal possession of a Kalashnikov automatic rifle", according to the indictment.
The four are said to have set up in 2003 a "terrorist cell ... to attack Americans and Jews present in Jordan" following a series of meetings in a mosque in the town of Zarqa, north-east of Amman.
The gang set up a shooting range on a farm owned by the uncle of one of them, practising on mock targets and viewing tapes on "resistance activity", it said.