AQI launched a series of attacks in Jordan in late 2005 that were partially based out of Anbar . The group had already unsuccessfully attacked the Trebil checkpoint along the Jordanian border with Anbar Governorate in December 2004 . In August , two US warships in Aqaba , the USS '' Kearsarge '' and the USS '' Ashland '' , were attacked with rockets ; the cell which carried out the attacks then fled into Iraq . On 9 November , three Iraqis from Anbar carried out suicide bombings in Amman , killing 60 . A fourth bomber , also from Anbar , was caught
suicide bombings in Amman
2005 Amman bombings
Iraq War in Al Anbar Governorate