On 3 December 2004 , AQI attempted unsuccessfully to blow up an Iraqi – Jordanian border crossing . In 2006 a Jordanian court sentenced al-Zarqawi and two of his associates to death '' in absentia '' for their involvement in the plot . AQI claimed to have carried out three attacks outside Iraq in 2005 . In the most deadly , suicide bombs killed 60 people in Amman , Jordan on 9 November 2005 . They claimed responsibility for the rocket attacks which narrowly missed the American naval ships USS '' Kearsarge '' and USS '' Ashland '' in Jordan , and also targeted the city of Eilat in Israel , and for the firing of several rockets into Israel from Lebanon in December 2005 . The affiliated groups were linked to regional attacks outside Iraq which were consistent with their stated plan , one example being the 2005 Sharm al-Sheikh bombings in Egypt , which killed 88 people , many of them foreign tourists
killed 60 people in Amman
2005 Amman bombings
Tanzim Qaidat al-Jihad fi Bilad al-Rafidayn