Coup thwarted in Jordan. There is also Hamzah bin Hussein, the eldest son of the late King Hussein, former Crown Prince and half-brother of King Abdullah II of Jordan, among the people close to the Royal House of Amman arrested today by the Jordanian security forces for ” security reasons. ”. “We asked him to stop activities and actions against Jordan’s stability,” the Amman army said in a statement. For the Middle East Eye site, the Jordanian authorities would have thwarted a coup attempt. In the past, Hamzah bin Hussein was accused of being supported by Saudi Arabia.
A senior Middle Eastern intelligence official briefed on the events told the Washington Post that an investigation was underway into the attempt to oust the king. Tribal leaders and members of the Jordanian security establishment were reportedly involved in the plot, the newspaper added. “An investigation is underway,” explained an official quoted by the official Petra news agency on condition of anonymity. The arrests, “about twenty”, were carried out after “careful monitoring” and “thorough investigations” that had been going on for a long time “, added the source.
According to sources from Amman, security men reportedly arrived in 20 vehicles and broke into the home of 41-year-old Prince Hamzah in a western suburb of Amman, placed him under house arrest and arrested his guards. . The head of his office, Yasser Majali, was also reportedly arrested after a heavily armed force broke into the home of a family member. . “Communication with them was cut off more than three hours ago,” tweeted a family member, Basma Al Majali.
Also detained Adnan Abu Hammad, who manages Prince Hamzah’s palace. Prince Hamzah is the son of the late King Hussein, who succeeded Abdullah in 1999, and his fourth wife, Queen Noor, who was born in the United States.
