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BBC News By Frank Gardner media captionPrince Hamzah bin Hussein said his internet and phone lines had been cut Saudi officials have categorically denied suggestions their country had any role in the alleged coup attempt in Jordan. On Saturday Jordan's popular former Crown Prince Hamzah was placed under de facto house arrest and accused of undermining national security after attending tribal meetings where King Abdullah, his half-brother, was openly criticised. Prince Hamzah then released to the BBC two videos, calling his country's government corrupt and incompetent, and saying that people ...

news How Saudi Arabia fits into Jordan's crisis Saudi officials have categorically denied suggestions their country had any role in the alleged coup attempt in Jordan. On Saturday Jordan's popular former Crown Prince Hamzah was placed under de facto house arrest and accused of undermining national security after attending tribal meetings where King Abdullah, his half-brother, was openly criticised. Prince Hamzah then released to the BBC two videos, calling his country's government corrupt and incompetent, and saying that people were afraid to speak out for fear of harassment by the security ...

An Israeli businessman said he offered Hamzeh’s family the use of his jet to fly to Europe ahead of the crisis.

Prince Hamzah bin Hussein is the eldest son of late King Hussein and his American-born wife. Jordanian authorities on Saturday arrested as many as 20 people and sought to restrain the movement of a former crown prince amid what officials called a threat to the "security and stability" of a country long regarded as a vital U.S. ally in the Middle East. Prince Hamzah bin Hussein, the eldest son of the late King Hussein and his American-born fourth wife, Queen Noor, was told to remain at his Amman palace amid an investigation into an alleged plot to unseat his older half brother, King Abdullah I...

Hamzah bin Hussein, the former crown prince and half-brother of Jordan's ruler King Abdullah II, said he was placed under house arrest as security officials said they uncovered a plot to overthrow the king.