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Jordan’s official “Petra” news agency said the arrests included Al-Sharif Hassan bin Zaid, Basem Awad Allah, the director of the Prince’s office, Hamza Yasser Al-Majali, and a group of other officials.
The Washington Post, citing a “senior” intelligence official in the Middle East, reported that “Prince Hamzah bin Al Hussein has been placed under residence at his home in Amman,” indicating that investigations into an “alleged plot “to overthrow King. Abdullah II.
An official Jordanian source denied that “Prince Hamzah was arrested or under house arrest.”
The “Washington Post” newspaper indicated that “the Jordanian authorities have arrested about twenty more people, while the official Jordanian news agency” Petra “said the arrests were carried out after” close monitoring “.
The move came, according to “The Washington Post”, after discovering what Jordanian royal palace officials describe as a “complex and vast conspiracy”, in which at least one official of the royal family was involved, in addition to the tribal leaders and members of the Jordanian security establishment, according to the newspaper.
The Middle East intelligence official, who refused to reveal his identity due to the sensitivity of the issue, added, according to the newspaper, that “further arrests are expected.”
An adviser to the Jordanian Royal Palace confirmed to the newspaper that the arrests occurred in the context of “a threat to the stability of the country.”
