"Jordan will confront terrorism and its evils by all available means and wherever its bases exist, regardless of who performed it or supported it," Judeh was quoted by the official Petra news agency as telling the Foreign Affairs Committee of the upper house of Parliament.

He said that as part of the government's endeavors to safeguard the country's security and national interests, "Jordan was involved in international, multiparty and bilateral intelligence cooperation in combating terrorism, extremism and violence.”

Judeh spoke against the backdrop of the Dec. 30 suicide attack on a US forward base in Khost, Afghanistan that killed seven CIA personnel and a Jordanian intelligence officer.

The bombing was carried out by a Turkish-educated Jordanian physician, Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal Al-Balawi, who reportedly acted as a double agent and was supposed to lead the CIA operatives to the hiding place of Al-Qaeda No. 2 Ayman Al-Zawahri.

The level of coordination between the CIA and the Jordanian intelligence organs as revealed by the Khost attack triggered criticism by opposition parties and columnists in Jordan, who contended that their country "should not fight others' wars.”

Jordan has been involved in intelligence cooperation with the CIA since Al-Qaeda suicide bombers blew themselves up at three Amman hotels in 2005, killing 60 people and wounding hundreds.

The bombings were masterminded by Jordanian fugitive Abu Mussab Al-Zarqawi, who was then Al-Qaeda’s commander in Iraq. Jordan said that its intelligence services were helpful in the US airstrike that killed Al-Zarqawi inside Iraq in June 2006.

During a visit to Jordan last week, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Michael Mullen praised the intelligence cooperation between his country and Jordan.