By Patrick Goodenough | April 4, 2021 | 8:22pm EDT
Jordan’s King Abdullah, left, and his half-brother, then-Crown Prince Hamzah bin Hussein, in 2000. (Photo by Jamal Nasrallah/AFP via Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) – Arab and Muslim leaders lined up to throw their public support behind Jordan’s King Abdullah on Sunday after authorities said they had foiled a conspiracy against the king, allegedly involving a displaced former crown prince – the king’s half-brother – and a senior former court official.
Although rare in relatively stable Jordan, in a region that is no stranger to palace intrigues and foreign plotting, public displays of solidarity are common at such times, as leaders make clear which side they are on – or try to allay any suspicion that they may be sympathetic to the perpetrators.
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On Jan. 31, Jordan and the United States signed a defense cooperation agreement. It was approved by the Jordanian government Feb. 17, and a royal decree approving the agreement was published March 16 in the Official Gazette, effective immediately, without being presented before the parliament, or National Assembly, which is made up of the House of Representatives and the Senate.
Jordanians were shocked that such an agreement had been approved only a few days after the US State Department and the US Embassy in Jordan issued a level 3 alert March 10, warning US citizens against traveling to several locations in the kingdom due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the dangers of what it called “terrorism and crime.”
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People gather outside the new Salt government hospital in the city of Salt, Jordan March 13, 2021. (Reuters) Amman - Mohammed Khair al-Rawashdeh
Jordanian security authorities continued to arrest protesters, who defied the curfew, to express their anger over an incident at a public hospital that claimed the lives of nine Covid-19 patients.
The security services forcibly dispersed a number of sit-ins, expanding the wave of arrests to several governorates and regions. Security officials accused the Teachers’ Movement and the Islamic Action Front - the political arm of the unlicensed Muslim Brotherhood – of stirring up the protests.
In a statement issued on Tuesday, the media spokesperson for the Public Security Directorate announced that security forces have “dealt with a number of groups breaching defense orders, putting the health of citizens at risk and contributing to the s
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