AMMAN, Jordan, May 15 (UPI) -- Jordan's Muslim Brotherhood have accused the Jordanian government of conspiring with Fatah to overthrow the Hamas-led Palestinian government.
The secretary-general of the Islamic Action Front, the Brotherhood's political arm, Zaki Abi Arsheed, said the Islamists have accurate information about high-level coordination between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement and Jordan to abort the Islamic movement in Palestine.
"We have sensitive information about the moves of the two parties and the contacts, as well as repeated meetings at high levels that clearly aim at foiling Hamas' experience in government," Abi Arsheed said, without elaborating further.
The Islamist movement in Jordan still casts doubt on the official story of Hamas plans to target vital installations in Jordan, despite the announcement of the arrest of 20 Hamas members and the televised confession of three of those arrested.
Abi Arsheed slammed what he called the government's determination to escalate tensions with Hamas, which the Jordanian government has accused of smuggling arms through Syria and stocking them in Jordan.
The Islamic leader also criticized Jordan's snubbing of the Palestinian government's attempts to contain the crisis and its proposal to send Foreign Minister Mahmoud Zahhar to Amman.
"The Jordanian government's response indicated that it has no intention to solve the problem which is reflecting adversely on relations between the Jordanian and Palestinian peoples," Abi Arsheed said.
The Jordanian government said it will not receive Zahhar before the Palestinian government sends a security delegation to uncover Hamas arms caches in Jordan.
Abi Arsheed, who leads the biggest bloc in government, said the Jordanian government has failed to convince the people of the accusations against Hamas, as many doubts hang over the so-called Hamas activists who made televised confessions.
Abi Arsheed said the Islamic Action Front had received information about the so-called Hamas militants indicating that they actually belong to a party hostile to Hamas.
