The Jordanian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood has condemned Jordan’s decision to warn Israel before last Thursday’s terror attacks.
Gavriel Queenann
Israel National News
21/08/11
Hamza Mansour, secretary general of the Islamic Action Front Party – the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan – condemned Jordan for giving Israel advance warning to Israel’s security forces of last Thursday’s terror attacks that killed 8 Israelis and left 33 wounded.
According to reports, Israel deployed additional army patrols and the elite Yamam counter-terrorism unit in the area when ‘tangible threats’ were reported, but not in time to find the terrorists and prevent the attack. Nonetheless, because of the additional deployments, IDF and Yamam personnel were in the vicinity and therefore able to race to the scene of the attack and avert greater tragedy.
Not all reports agree Jordan was the source of the warning, however. Others have attributed the warning to Egyptian security officials – and to officers of the Israel Security Agency (ISA) itself.
Mansour said the Jordanian warning was an “obscene case of security cooperation with the enemy, a threat to Jordan, and the Arab and Islamic nation.” He demanded Jordan’s government punish those responsible and remove them from the security forces and the diplomatic corps.
Moreover, in addition to the riots in front of Israel’s embassy in Cairo after Israeli retaliatory strikes for the now-three-day long series of terror attacks on Israel’s south, demonstrations were also staged outside the Israeli embassy in Amman, and there were disturbances at the Jordanian embassy in Israel…
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