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Jordan’s Crown Prince Hamzah bin Hussein delivers a speech to Muslim clerics and scholars at the opening ceremony of a religious conference at the Islamic Al al-Bayet University in Amman, Jordan August 21, 2004. — Reuters pic
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AMMAN, April 7 — Jordan sought to throw a veil yesterday over its public palace feud by ordering its media to stop reporting on an alleged plot the government says involves the half-brother of King Abdullah II.
Prince Hamzah had on Saturday harshly criticised Jordan’s leaders from what he said was house arrest — but in a dramatic about-turn on Monday pledged his loyalty to the royal family.