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Jordan policeman murders American and South African trainers

Nov 9, 2015 2:28 pm By Robert Spencer

“In the absence of any other obvious motive for the shooting it will be assumed that the killings were intended as an act of solidarity with militant groups in the Middle East.”

Jordan training center Muwaqqar

“Jordan policeman kills American and South African trainers,” BBC, November 9, 2015:

A Jordanian policeman has opened fire at a police training centre outside Amman, killing two Americans, a South African and a Jordanian, officials say.

The Jordanian embassy in Washington said the assailant wounded five others, including two Americans and three Jordanians, before being shot dead.

President Barack Obama said the US was taking the attack “very seriously”.

The US-funded Jordan International Police Training Centre (JIPTC) hosts mainly Palestinian and Iraqi officers.

Civilian contractors from the US and elsewhere assist Jordanian police trainers at the facility in Muwaqqar, on the eastern outskirts of Amman.

Jordanian government spokesman Mohammed Momani told the Associated Press that an investigation had been launched into whether the motive for Monday’s shooting attack at the JIPTC was personal or political.

The assailant was a senior trainer with the rank of captain, a Jordanian security source was quoted as saying by Reuters….

BBC Middle East correspondent Kevin Connolly says the kingdom of Jordan steers a strongly pro-Western course in the turbulent waters of the Middle East.

It hosts joint military exercises with countries like the US and UK, and strongly supports the US-led coalition against Islamic State militants in Syria.

In the absence of any other obvious motive for the shooting it will be assumed that the killings were intended as an act of solidarity with militant groups in the Middle East, our correspondent adds.

The incident comes on the 10th anniversary of bombing attacks by al-Qaeda in Iraq on three hotels in Amman which killed more than 50 people.

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  1. sahani says

    Nov 9, 2015 at 2:43 pm

    Why west and Europe and Russia training killers ,islamic killers to be better killers to kill them in future using guns bought from west and Russia.
    Its totally suicidal.

    • Godwin says

      Nov 9, 2015 at 3:19 pm

      I never heard of Russian trainers but mostly American, Americans should get the hell out of these ME countries to be safe.

      • Christianblood says

        Nov 9, 2015 at 5:27 pm

        Isn’t Jordan supposed to be a ‘moderate’ muslim country allied with the U.S.A?

  2. Angemon says

    Nov 9, 2015 at 4:09 pm

    President Barack Obama said the US was taking the attack “very seriously”.

    Yes, I’m sure that in between rounds of golf Sheik Hussein will find the time to write a strongly worded email telling American staff they’re to take extra care in not offending the local “culture”…

    Jordanian government spokesman Mohammed Momani told the Associated Press that an investigation had been launched into whether the motive for Monday’s shooting attack at the JIPTC was personal or political.

    Personal or political? As in, no other hypothesis is being considered?

    The incident comes on the 10th anniversary of bombing attacks by al-Qaeda in Iraq on three hotels in Amman which killed more than 50 people.

    Golly gee willers, what a coinkidink!

    • Bantheburka says

      Nov 10, 2015 at 1:19 pm

      Political or personal…..like there is a difference that makes it ok? Dumbest comment I have ever heard.

  3. Michael Copeland says

    Nov 9, 2015 at 4:16 pm

    “doing exactly what this book says”
    Lt-Col. Allen West

  4. dlbrand says

    Nov 9, 2015 at 5:23 pm

    Again, we can but wonder what happened? What triggered this? Was there a motive, or, just one more sad case of mental illness?

    Maybe the following from IS will help us understand:

    It was Shaykh Abū Muhammad al-‘Adnānī’s call to action for Muslims wherever they were to rise up and fight the enemies of the Islamic State that brought almost instant reaction from around the world.
    “Do not let this battle pass you by wherever you may be,” commanded the Shaykh.

    “You must strike the soldiers, patrons, and troops of the tawāghīt. Strike their police, security, and
    intelligence members. If you can kill a disbelieving American or European … or any other disbeliever from the disbelievers waging war against the Islamic State, then rely upon Allah, and kill him in any manner or way however it may be.”

    And so it began. Just days later, chaos erupted around the world.

    In Australia, Numan Haider stabbed two counterterrorism police officers. In Canada, a soldier was shot and killed in front of the war memorial in Ottawa by 32 year-old Michael Zehaf-Bibeau on October 22nd…. In the same week another two soldiers were run over in a hit-and-run in Quebec … and in
    New York, Zale Thompson attacked four policemen in Queens with a hatchet, the moment
    of his savage attack caught on CCTV cameras and beamed into people’s homes all
    across America.

    All these attacks were the direct result of the Shaykh’s call to action, and they highlight
    what a deadly tinderbox is fizzing just beneath the surface of every western country, waiting
    to explode into violent action at any moment given the right conditions….

    ….The significance of these attacks and others is enormous and cannot be underestimated. By
    Calling on Muslims around the world to rise up in arms, the Shaykh launched attacks in Canada,
    America, and Australia (three of the countries mentioned in his speech) with nothing more
    than words and a shared belief in the act of worship that is jihād….

    And the numbers of Muslims taking up arms in the name of jihād under the banner of the Islamic
    State are growing, and they’re growing fast….Its [that of IS] grasp has now spread across northern Africa into Libya and Algeria, across to Yemen and up to the Arabian Peninsula where the Shiites and regimes are now being attacked by mujāhidīn loyal to the Islamic State…. (Dabiq, Issue 5, pp. 36,37,38 respectively.)

    And from Dabiq Issue 10, citing Allah’s commands:

    Allah has commanded us …{And fight them until there is no fitnah and until the religion, all of it, is for Allah} [Al-Anfāl: 39]. And He  said, {Then kill the mushrikīn wherever you find them and capture them and besiege them and sit in wait for them at every place of ambush. But if they should repent, establish prayer, and give zakāh, let them go on their way} [At-Tawbah: 5]” (p. 60)

    ……………..

    ….{You will not find a people who believe in Allah and the Last Day having affection
    for those who oppose Allah and His Messenger, even if they were their fathers or their sons or their brothers or their kindred. Those – He has decreed within their hearts faith and supported them with a spirit from Him} [Al-Mujādilah: 22]. (P.61)

    As IS therefore asserts in Dabiq 10, elsewhere, and most notably and in their daily lives:

    So we say to them as the mujāhid leader Sa’ūd Ibn ‘Abdil-‘Azīz Ibn Muhammad Ibn Sa’ūd….
    …………..
    “And what you mentioned of us killing the kuffār, then this is a matter that we neither apologize for nor disregard. And we will do more in that regard, inshā’allāh, and we will advise our children to do likewise after us, and they will advise their children likewise after them, as the Companion said, ‘We will remain upon jihād, as long as we live.’”

    “We will rub the noses of the kuffār in dirt, shed their blood, and take their wealth as ghanīmah by the might and power of Allah. And we do all that in emulation of the Prophet , not innovating anything. We do it in obedience to Allah and His Messenger, and to come closer to Allah. And we hope to attain abundant rewards by this deed, as per His statement, {Then kill the mushrikīn wherever you find them and capture them and besiege them and sit in wait for them at every place of ambush.

    But if they should repent, establish prayer, and give zakāh, let them go on their way. Indeed….And fight them until there is no fitnah and until the religion, all of it, is for Allah…. [Al-Anfāl: 39-40], and His statement, {So when you meet those who disbelieve strike their necks} [Muhammad: 4], and His statement, {Fight them; Allah will punish them by your hands and will disgrace them and give you victory over them} [At-Tawbah: 14].”

    ….Indeed, Allah has purchased from the believers their lives and their properties …. They
    fight in the cause of Allah, so they kill and are killed…. So rejoice in your transaction which you have contracted. And it is that which is the great attainment} [At-Tawbah: 111]….

    ………..So O soldiers of the Islamic State, charge into the ranks of the murtaddīn who forcefully resist the laws of the Sharī’ah….waging jihād for the cause of Allah and to make Allah’s word the highest and the word of those who disbelieve the lowest….

    ….gather your brothers, rise in unison, and kill those who order you to fight against those who rule with the Sharī’ah….

    So detonate your explosive belt in their midst. Shoot their soldiers in the chest. Dissuade whoever you can from fighting those who rule by the Sharī’ah. Make them abandon fighting the muwahhid mujāhidīn, and spread discouragement within their ranks….

    ( Ibid. Pp. 60, 61.62,63,64 respectively.)

    As I stated, all one can do is stand back and wonder, what in this world caused this hit, what triggered it, what could possibly be behind it…?

    Or reason, perchance, in the words of IS, it is due to “nothing more than words,” as in “Allah’s” words, “and a shared belief in the act of worship that is jihād….” Thus done “in obedience to Allah and His Messenger.”

    • Budvarakbar says

      Nov 9, 2015 at 8:01 pm

      Ann Barnhardt spelled this out in her koran excerpt reading and burning video 5 years ago — get up to speed folks – Jefferson had it down over 200 years ago.

      • dajjal says

        Nov 9, 2015 at 10:28 pm

        LibTards are incapable of learning from history. Anal sp;hincters are not suitable substitutes for brains. They erect fact shields which no truth can penetrate.

    • dajjal says

      Nov 9, 2015 at 10:25 pm

      http://islamexposed.blogspot.com/2012/09/green-on-blue-damned-fool-you.html

      Therefore damnation be upon Islam, Muslims and those who defend it/them, lie about it/them and make us vulnerable to them.

      A ‘slime’s a ‘slime for alla’ that; false allie of a DemonRat.

  5. ballotcode says

    Nov 9, 2015 at 5:41 pm

    More “workplace” incidents? Ya, didn’t think so.

  6. gravenimage says

    Nov 9, 2015 at 11:42 pm

    Jordan policeman murders American and South African trainers
    ……………………

    And remember: the Jordanians are supposed to be “moderates”.

  7. Sam says

    Nov 10, 2015 at 10:56 am

    My way of looking at this I see a clear picture of workplace violence.

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