Three U.S. service members were killed Friday in a shooting incident at a military base south of Jordan’s capital city Amman, a U.S. official said.
The service members were in vehicles approaching the gate of a Jordanian military training facility, where they came under small arms fire, the official said. The U.S. was working with Jordanian officials to investigate further.
Jordanian state news agency Petra first said the shooting occurred at the entrance to the King Faisal Air Base, in the al-Jafr area south of Amman, after the vehicles carrying the service members failed to stop at the security gates.
The agency later dropped the reference to a vehicle failing to stop at a gate, saying only that there was an “exchange” of gunfire.
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2 comments:
President O'bumble will tell us everything about this incident before the election, since he is so transparent.
Tragic accident. They did what we trained them to do: shoot to kill a potential suicide VBIED. No warning shots in the training manual.
Moral: Mind your checkpoints.
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