AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Eleven men suspected of links to al-Qaida pleaded not guilty on Thursday to terrorism charges related to an alleged plot to attack the U.S. Embassy and shopping malls in Jordan.

It is the first major plot linked to al-Qaida since a triple hotel bombing in Amman that killed 60 people in November 2005. At the time, al-Qaida in Iraq claimed responsibility for the bombing, citing its rejection of Jordan’s alliance with the United States and its cordial ties with Israel under a 1994 peace treaty.