Inmates riot over fates of al-Qaida members

? Inmates rioted at three Jordanian prisons Wednesday over the fates of two convicted al-Qaida killers and a would-be suicide bomber, raising new concern about increasing sympathy for the terror network in Mideast prisons.

The prisoners took a high-ranking official hostage and injured several other police before the 14-hour standoff ended without major bloodshed.

Jordan later announced that it had arrested two Iraqi men and a would-be Libyan suicide bomber who belonged to al-Qaida and plotted an attack on an unspecified “vital civilian facility” in the capital, Amman.

While no details were given to link the riots and the arrests, they indicated Osama bin Laden’s terror network may be finding fertile recruiting grounds in pro-U.S. Jordan and elsewhere in the region.