Ammon News - AMMONNEWS - Jordan's State Minister for Media Affairs and Communications and Government spokesperson Nabil Sharif dismissed accusations made by al-Qaeda double agent Humam al-Balawi in a video released on the internet on Sunday, and stressed that Jordan had no connections or stake in targeting the figures mentioned by al-Balawi.

In a 43-minute long video that appeared on a jihadist website apparently filmed briefly before the suicide attack at a U.S. intelligence facility in Afghanistan, Al-Balawi accused Jordanian intelligence of providing information linked to the assassinations of Islamists leaders such as Abdullah Azzam, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and Hizbollah’s Imad Mughniyeh.

Sharif said that such accusations are lies that are not on par with logic or facts.

In statements to 'Ammon News,' Sharif said that Jordan will continue its efforts to protect the security of its citizens and track down terrorists in defense of the country’s security and stability.

Jordan, Sharif added, will continue to defend Islam from terrorists who "are determined to distort Islam’s tolerant image."

Sharif noted that the ‘lies and allegations’ propagated by al-Balawi will not deter Jordan from continuing in safeguarding its security and in defending the true image of Islam, which is being distorted by terrorists who associate Islam with false allegations distant from its true essence.

Sharif’s statements come in response to the video released on the Internet Sunday, according to report by IntelCenter, a US group that monitors Islamist websites, in which Al-Balawi, also known as Abu Dujaanah al-Khorasani, who blew himself up in an American intelligence base in Khost Afghanistan late last year, which killed seven American CIA operatives and his Jordanian handler, calls for jihad against Jordan and targeting Jordanian intelligence.

Al-Balawi described in the video the details of his recruitment by Jordanian intelligence to spy on al-Qaeda and how he was able to double cross them.

Al-Balawi appeared in the video to accuse Jordanian intelligence of providing information for the killing of Sheikh Abdullah Azzam, nearly 20 years ago in Peshawer, and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, al-Qaeda’s leader in Iraq in 2006, as well as Imad Mughniyeh, the Hizbollah leader killed in a car bomb in Damascus in 2008 by planting a spy to provide intelligence on him.

Al- Balawi claimed that his Jordanian handler, Abu Zaid as he called him who worked in the Counter-Terrorism Division in the Jordanian Intelligence Agency, had disclosed the information about the targeting of Azzam, al-Zarqawi and Mughniyeh.