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Report: After ten years in exile, Hamas' Meshal to visit Jordan
By Haaretz Service
Tags: Haniyeh, Jordan, Hamas 

Ten years after his exile from Jordan, Hamas' Damascus-based leader Khaled Meshal will return there for a visit, Saudi Arabic-language newspaper Al-Watan reported Monday.

The newspaper quoted members of Jordan's Muslim Brotherhood movement as saying that Meshal's consent to the Jordanian leadership's demands that he not take part in Hamas' affairs in Jordan, helped pave the way for his upcoming visit.

According to the report, Meshal is expected to arrive in Jordan within the next few days, and will meet with senior Jordanian officials as a follow-up round to recent talks between two Hamas officials and Jordan's intelligence chief , Mohammed al-Thahabi.
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The talks were aimed at patching up ties, as relations between the two sides have soured since 2006 by charges that the Islamist Palestinian group was planning to carry out attacks in Jordan.

Relations between Hamas and Jordan began deteriorating in 1999 when Jordan forced Hamas leaders to suspend their activities in the Hashemite Kingdom, a move which led to Hamas' departure.

Hamas' leader in the Gaza Strip Ismail Haniyeh said on Friday that recent contacts with Jordan could help reconcile Hamas with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' secular Fatah faction.

"These are positive developments and a beginning which we hope will succeed," Haniyeh said during Friday prayers at a Gaza mosque.

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