His Majesty King Abdullah II has voiced pride in the General Intelligence and Public Security Departments' devoted efforts and highly appreciated their vigilance and alertness to unveil and foil plans plotted by terrorist groups aimed to undermine stability and security in the Kingdom through detonating vehicles filled with highly explosive materials.

In a letter addressed to the King Advisor for Security Affairs and Director of the General Intelligence Department and the State Security Council Raporteur General Saed Kheir, King Abdullah hailed the brave stand by the Jordanian people in cooperating with security forces to thwart every attempt designed to harm our dear homeland.

"As the operation to apprehend members of the terrorist group, that aimed to terrorize innocent people, has ended successfully, I'd would like to express my pride, appreciation and gratitude to the intelligence and public security personnel for their excellent efforts, their vigilance and perseverance day and night until they unveiled the terrorist plots designed to destabilize Jordan and harm its steadfastness," King Abdullah said in the letter.

We have passed through very critical circumstances over the past few days when we heard about horrible plans plotted against our loyal people by a gang of terrorists, the King added. It was with God care that their plans have been foiled and lives of thousands of people have been saved from a crime that Jordan has never seen before in terms of the quantity of explosives and the way the crime has been planned, said the King.

In his letter, the King stressed that terrorist acts will never "waive us from moving ahead to achieve our its Arab Hashemite message and to fulfill our vision to build a Jordanian model of democracy, freedom and justice."

In a reply letter General Kheir said with God help and with directives from His Majesty the King the criminal plan plotted a gang of terrorists and sinisters was thwarted in a record time.

He hailed King Abdullah's relentless support to the security departments. Those sinister should know that we are able to reach out to them wherever they are and we are capable of thwarting their plans designed to terrorize and intimidate children women and the elderly, Kheir said.