Jordan fears Hamas’ Khaled Meshaal

By Olivier Guitta

Last year, an Israeli general warned of a potential coup in Jordan to overthrow King Abdullah.
One clear threat for the Amman regime is Hamas Khaled Meshaal.
For proof, from The Croissant:

The Jordanian government worries about the latest maneuvers of Khaled Meshaal, the chief of the radical wing of Hamas [based in Damascus and supported by Syria and Iran] on the Jordanian and West Bank Islamist scenes

Jordan:
Meshaal would seek to separate the Palestinian Hamas from the mother organization , the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood
Amman fears that Meshaal will copycat Yasser Arafat’s strategy who had used the PLO to allow Fatah to control the Palestinian street in Jordan, starting in 1965
Advisers to the King suspect Meshaal of wanting to support independent candidates in the forthcoming legislative elections, planned at the end of 2007

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