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In an October 25, 2024 interview on SamaQuds, released Jordanian terrorist Sultan Al-Ajlouni, imprisoned for killing an Israeli soldier, discussed his time in Israeli prison, where he met prisoners who later carried out the October 7 attack. Al-Ajlouni recounted a meeting with former Jordanian Prime Minister Marouf Al-Bakhit, who, while serving as Ambassador to Israel, said that despite Jordan’s peace with Israel, the leadership still viewed Israel as an enemy. Al-Ajlouni praised the "glorious October 7" attack, claiming it destabilized Israel’s economy and security. He also suggested that if Muslim countries had acted, they could have defeated Israel, and the West would not intervene because they were not "crazy about Israel" and were unwilling to make sacrifices for it, accusing the West of wanting to rid their own countries of Jews by placing their "garbage bin" on the Arabs' doorstep.
Sultan Al-Ajlouni: "[In the early 1990s], the Islamic movement in Jordan decided that they did not want to carry out any military activity at that time. So we were checking things out and were sent to the Islamic Jihad – Bait Al-Maqdis group of Sheikh As'ad Bayoudh Al-Tamimi, may Allah have mercy on his soul. So we went to meet him.
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"They said to us: We want to send you to train in Algeria, and then you will attack an American target in Europe, but first you need to complete your university education... We said to ourselves: This will never happen... A massacre is taking place in front of our eyes, we don't want to wait until we complete our university degree, and then go to train in Algeria, and then attack an American target in Europe... What is this nonsense? We want to go fight the enemy directly now..."
Interviewer: "You wanted to cross the Jordan River..."
Al-Ajlouni: "We wanted to cross the river, and clash with the enemy. We did not want to wait all these years. And ultimately, attack an American target in Europe? What is this? Honestly, after meeting with them and seeing the publications they gave us, we felt that they were not... We felt that they were not a real, active, and serious resistance movement. We felt that they were infiltrated [by the security forces], to tell you the truth. We noticed that they were taking credit for all the attacks that were taking place in Palestine. This is what led me to write in my 'will,' that if they would take credit for my attack, it was not true. I set out myself, on behalf of the Islamic nation. So we severed our contacts with them."
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Interviewer: "[In the Israeli prison], you were with many of the people who would plan and lead the Al-Aqsa Flood, many years later.
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"Were there any discussions, signs, or just ideas indicating that these people would carry out such an operation, when they were released?"
Al-Ajlouni: "Without a doubt. All these leaders and others – some famous and some unknown – shared this mentality."
Interviewer: "They were thinking about..."
Al-Ajlouni: "Absolutely. Absolutely. They knew for certain that the liberation is coming.
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"The Jordanian government intervened [on behalf of the Jordanians in Israeli prison]. The Prime Minister back then was Marouf Al-Bakhit, may he rest in peace. Despite all our other disagreements with him, Dr. Marouf [Al-Bakhit]... He is no longer with us, but I attest that no other Jordanian official has done for the Jordanian prisoners what he did. When Marouf Al-Bakhit became Jordanian ambassador to Israel, in his first meeting, when he presented his credentials to the president of the 'entity,' he raised our issue.
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"He went to visit the families of all the soldiers we had killed, in an attempt to reduce the objection to our release among the Israeli public. He came to visit us in prison. He was the only ambassador to do so. He came to visit a group of us Jordanian prisoners in Hadarim Prison. We met with him. He had the embassy staff with him, along with officers from the [prison] management. We were talking, and at one point he asked everybody to leave, because he wanted to speak with me one-on-one. So the guys who were with me left, and so did the embassy staff – the consul, the aides, and so on – and the [Israeli] officers also left. He asked me to sit next to him, and said: 'Look, I am a history professor, a military officer, and a Muslim. You think I do not believe that they are our enemies, and that the day will come when the trees and the rocks will speak, and that the land should be liberated? Everybody in [our] leadership believes in this, but the international circumstances are unfavorable, the balance of power is not in our favor, so we are forced to make peace with them.'
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"Some people say that the losses incurred by the Jews do not matter, because the U.S. supports them economically and compensates them... Well, the lives they lost cannot be compensated.
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"Since the [Jews] are looking for security and economic prosperity, and they had originally come to that country, because they were told that this was the Land of Milk and Honey... They came to find a safe place and prosperity, but they found a place where they are being slaughtered and the economy is collapsing. So they will not stay. The negative emigration has begun, with an emphasis on brain drain.
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"Along came the glorious October 7, and shook the foundations of the Zionist home – the economy and the security.
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"If there were Arab countries that really opposed the occupation, they could have finished it off very easily. If they intervened on October 8 or October 10 – Egypt, any of the neighboring countries, or Turkey, or I don't know whom... There would not be a thing called Israel anymore. Don't think that the Westerners are crazy about Israel, and are ready to sacrifice everything for its sake. No. They made it an advanced trench, because they wanted to get rid of the Jews. They brought their garbage bin, and threw it in front of our door. They made it an advanced trench in the midst of our nation. If it works, fine. If not, goodbye. If they reach the conclusion that they cannot defend this advanced trench, they will give up on it."
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