Report: Jordanian authorities ban Syrian Muslim Brothers consultation meeting
Jordan-Regional, Politics, 2/8/2000

The Jordanian weekly al-Majd said that the Jordanian authorities have banned the Syrian Muslim Brothers in Amman and abroad from convening a meeting of the group's Shoura council in Amman this week.

The paper quoted a well-informed Jordanian source as saying that as the Jordanian authorities banned this meeting, the Syrian Muslim Brothers leadership held its meeting in Baghdad, saying that the same thing happened just half a year ago when the Shoura council was held in Iraq, as the Jordanian authorities refused then to convene it in Amman.

The source expressed its conviction that this Jordanian stand is in compliance with the nature of the relations linking the Jordanian and Syrian governments and an attempt to eliminate an old alliance with the Muslim Brothers group, an alliance which has become part of the remains of the past, of the inter-Arab cold war, as the source stated.

The Jordanian source added that since 1999, the Jordanian government started to dismember partially or totally its alliance with groups and parties of the Arab and Islamic opposition previously existing in the Jordanian arena, adding these include the Palestinian Authority opposition Hamas movement, the Muslim Brothers group which opposes the Syrian government and all parties and movements opposing the Iraqi government with the exception of the al-Wifaq (reconciliation) movement.

The Jordanian source stressed that the Jordanian authorities were not also confined to preventing the convening of the council Shoura of the Syrian Muslim Brothers in Amman but also just several days ago they closed the media office of the Syrian Muslim Brothers in Amman when a security force broke in this office and inspected it before closing it off due to its numerous activities carried out recently, especially its release of publications and statements against Syrian official policies.

The Jordanian source continued that the Jordanian sides concerned told those who run the media office that as guests they do not have the right to issue political statements that are in contradiction to what has been worked out by King Abdullah II on reactivating the peace settlement on all Syrian, Lebanese and Palestinian tracks.

On the other hand, the al-Majd added that reconciliation has started in Baghdad and then consolidated in Amman between the general observers of the Syrian Muslim Brothers, Ali Sader eddine al-Bayanouni, and his foe, the former general observer of the same movement, Adnan Saad Eddine.

The paper continued that this reconciliation which took place between the two conflicting men came with a social rather then political background, as al-Bayanouni visited Saad Eddin at the hospital after the latter had undergone open-heart surgery at the Islamic conference in Amman just three weeks ago.

Saad Eddine's partisans who are staying in Baghdad quoted him as saying that the personal reconciliation took place between him and al Bayanouni will not eliminate political and doctrine differences, as Saad Eddine still has his own previous belief that al-Bayanouni's leadership of the group in this phase will be conducive to eliminating and dismembering this group.

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