Two Americans shot dead at Jordan
security training facility: security source
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[November 09, 2015]
AMMAN (Reuters) - A Jordanian police
officer shot and killed two Americans on Monday at a U.S.-funded
facility for training Iraqi and Palestinian security forces, before
committing suicide, a security source said.
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The Jordanian went on a shooting spree at the facility in Muaqar
on the eastern outskirts of the capital Amman, the source, who
requested anonymity, said.
Another security source said there were unconfirmed reports that at
least three other U.S. service personnel were injured,
Jordan is a staunch U.S. ally and part of the Washington-led
coalition that is trying to defeat Islamic State in Syria and Iraq,
both of which border Jordan.
The country hosts several hundred U.S. trainers who are part of a
military program to bolster the kingdom's defense, including the
stationing of F16 fighter jets that use Jordanian airfields to hit
Islamic State positions in Syria.
But the kingdom's role in the war against Islamic State has caused
disquiet among some Jordanians worried about instability at their
borders and fearing that a stepped-up role in the campaign might
lead to Islamist attacks in their country.
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King Abdullah believes fervently that ultra hardline jihadists pose
an existentialist threat to the kingdom.
(Reporting by Suleiman Al-Khalidi; Editing by Jeremy Gaunt)
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