Former Jordanian Prime Minister Marouf Al-Bakhit has passed away after a long battle with illness. Al-Bakhit died on Saturday and was buried in his hometown Mahis. Born in 1945, he originates from the Abbad Jordanian tribe. Bakhit enrolled in the Jordanian Armed Forces-Arab Army in 1964 and retired in 1999 as a Major General. He also served as Jordan's ambassador to Türkiye in 2000-2004 and then to Israel. At the beginning of 2005, Jordan's King Abdullah II summoned him to be the Director of His Office and Director of the Higher National Security Council.
Suspicious foreign parties
For the Jordanian public trying to get to the bottom of the alleged plot authorities said had been exposed over the weekend, the main question was who are the foreign parties that Amman said want to destabilise the country”?
According to London-based newspaper al-Quds al-Arabi, much confusion was sown by the arrests of several figures and detention of the former crown prince, Hamzah bin Hussein. Primarily this was over the question of the alleged ambitions and delusions entertained by the prince and his close entourage, which coincided with suspicious contacts with foreign parties . The issue is not related to a coup attempt, but it is rather about a security operation targeting groups with an ambition to stir chaos and destabilise Jordan, which means the prince s group is accused of insulting the state and leaking information to external opponents, in addition to a seemingly other part of the case that has to do with the foreign agendas, said the