The Jordanian military foiled a terrorist plot to smuggle weapons and drugs through a disused oil pipeline on the border with Syria, announced an official in the general command on Saturday. "A group of terrorists and drug traffickers" had used a house near the Jordan-Syria border and the disused Trans-Arabian Pipeline (Tapline) to "dig and prepare a series of tunnels for use in smuggling operations and to carry out terrorist attacks", the official said. Authorities have ordered the destruction of the tunnels and instructed army engineering units to unearth the pipeline to prevent other "smugglers and terrorists" from using it.