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July 6, 2006       Share:    

Source: http://inbrief.threatswatch.org/2006/07/jordanmuslim-brotherhood-confl/

Jordan-Muslim Brotherhood Conflict Heats Up After Zarqawi Homage

(ThreatsWatch.org) Kirk H. Sowell - The Jordanian government is moving to clamp down on the activities of the Muslim Brotherhood and its Jordanian political arm, the Islamic Action Front (IAF). The IAF, like the Palestinian Hamas, was inspired by and in part founded by activists from the Egypt-based Muslim Brotherhood. As reported in Al-Hayat on Tuesday, the ill-received mourning for Zarqawi by four Islamist members of the Jordanian parliament was followed by a declaration published by the "National Jordanian Conference," headed by the general secretary of the IAF, Zaki Saad Bani Rashid, calling for a new government which would break off cooperation with Israel and the U.S., recognize Hamas, and provide assistance to the "resistance" in Palestine and Iraq. It should be remembered that the leadership of the IAF played an important role in persuading King Abdullah to release Zarqawi and other al-Qaeda members from prison in 1999 as part of an amnesty, a decision the king has greatly regretted.

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