“Jordan also faces homegrown extremism, with hundreds of Jordanians fighting alongside ISIS militants in Iraq and Syria and several thousand more supporting the militant group in the kingdom. Last November, a Jordanian police captain opened fire in an international police training facility, killing two Americans and three others. The government subsequently portrayed the police captain as troubled.”
Of course. What else could he be? It’s all part of the global outbreak of mental illness.
“One American trainer killed, two injured in Jordan attack,” by Andrew Tilghman, Military Times, November 4, 2016 (thanks to Andrew Bostom):
One U.S. servicemember was killed and two others were critically injured on Friday in an exchange of gunfire at the gates of an air base in southern Jordan, U.S. defense officials said.
Reports earlier Friday morning that two service members were killed were inaccurate, a U.S. defense official said.
It was not immediately clear what prompted the shooting.
Of course. It never is.
The shots were fired as a car carrying the trainers tried to enter the al-Jafr base near the southern Jordanian town of Mann, according to the Jordanian military. A Jordanian officer was also wounded.
The U.S. Embassy in the Jordanian capital, Amman, said it had received reports about a security incident involving U.S. personnel and that it was in touch with Jordanian authorities.
Pro-Western Jordan is a key member of a U.S-led military coalition against the Islamic State group, which controls parts of neighboring Iraq and Syria.
Jordan also faces homegrown extremism, with hundreds of Jordanians fighting alongside ISIS militants in Iraq and Syria and several thousand more supporting the militant group in the kingdom.
Last November, a Jordanian police captain opened fire in an international police training facility, killing two Americans and three others. The government subsequently portrayed the police captain as troubled….