A Jordanian policeman opened fire this morning on foreign trainers at a police training compound, killing two American military personnel, as well as a South African trainer. The gunman was shot dead by responding forces, a government spokesman said.
Jordan, a U.S. ally that has a peace treaty with Israel, has long been seen as an island of relative stability in a turbulent region. A terror attack by a Jordanian police officer against American military could mark the beginning of a disturbing new trend in the country.
U.S. forces in Afghanistan have come under attack on a number of occasions by local police and troops serving alongside them, in what are known as “green-on-blue” assaults. Such attacks have been extremely rare in the Middle East.
The attacker also wounded two Americans and four Jordanians, one of them critically, said spokesman Mohammed Momani.
A military official said the attacker was a police captain who worked as a trainer at the facility on the outskirts of the Jordanian capital, Amman. The captain was married and had two children, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the government has not released the assailant’s identity.
There has been concern that militants could carry out revenge attacks on Jordanian soil.
In Washington, State Department spokesman John Kirby said U.S. officials were “in contact with the appropriate Jordanian authorities, who have offered their full support.”
The Associated Press contributed to this article
Seems like every time you try to trust a middle easterner you get stabbed in the back.
I think that they are sick of our “help”.It’s called Blowback and is the result of our interventionist policies.We have enough oil.
So says the “Blame America First ” crowd. It’s not our fault, that you don’t see that Islam is on the March is bewildering.
You are wrong! Read the Qur’an. I am constantly amazed at the ignorance of Islam portrayed by so many in the West. Islam’s basic doctrine is to convert the whole world to Islam by conversion or death. So killing the infidel is core to Muslim belief system (or pay the tribute, the jazya, for only a period od time, then kill you if you don’t convert). It is NOT about intervention, oil or joblessness as so many liberals falsely claim.
that’s exactly right and the people should learn from this teaching. We are ignorant of this teaching and kept on believing that these people will respond to negotiations, talks and kindness. To them, we are the unbelievers and considered an enemy that should be killed if we do not convert. That simple. If we all understand this kind of thinking, we will know how to deal with them but look, the only country who knows how to deal with them is Israel and look how the rest of the world is treating the tiny nation. And we are going to pay for this…
Or we would have enough oil if our community organizer, I mean, President would stop trying to make us unexceptional and allow us to develop our own energy resources.
I DON’T BELIEVE THERE IS A GENE FOR BEING TRUSTWORTHY, IN THE WEAK LINKS TO HUMANITY.
BEING “HUMAN” IS A GIVEN, BUT HUMANITY MUST BE DEVELOPED AND NOURISHED, JUST AS OUR PHYSICAL “BEING”.. BLOOD LETTING SECTS OF PEOPLE, HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A PART OF THE HUMAN SCOPE.
THE DIFFERENCE IS BETWEEN HUMAN AND HUMANE!
I don’t know if this book was ever translated in English; the book of deception; the political strategy of Arabs, but in it it says that it is perfectly acceptable to stab in the back if the result is positive for the stabber.
We have no business trying to help Islamic countries, they all have a doctrine that conflicts with anyone that isn’t Islamic mainly the prime which says if you will not convert you must die. Sounds pretty plain to me!
We only got one. He got five. He beat the odd’s.
When are the people of this country and especially our dumb or traitor leaders going to realize that you cant appease Islam? They hate our guts! Their religion says to kill all non-believers , so how do you get moderates out of that? ask any person that concert from Islam and they will tell you that the moderates at a point in time will kill us or be killed as their religion teaches. Obama should know since he is a muslim!!! At least he said so on his school application in Indonesia. You know he never lies !!!!!!
This is what you get when you allow the military to be used for both military and political purposes like ancient Rome. Why are American forces meddling in the internal affairs of other countries? You tell me amigo. Cowards you say? I would prefer to be a live coward than a dead hero! These well meaning men and women in uniform know and understand the risk(s) they have taken when they held up their hands and swore allegiance to the flag folks. This was not an act of cowardice, but of deception Sun Tzu) explained in the book The Art of War. The 535 members of Congress are the real cowards by sending young men and women away in foreign lands to be brought back in body bags, mutilated or disabled.When is man going to learn to become civilized and respect the rights of other people?
You are so right.
Pour pigs blood on the dirt bag and this type of crap will stop
AMEN and AMEN!!!!!!
Right James Devlin!! You can NOT trust any rag-headed, goat humping, child rapist Muslim anywhere at anytime, period! Don’t be fooled by your neighborhood ‘Religion of Peace’ mosques’!! All they are doing is plotting on how to take down whatever country they reside in…I don’t care what Prez. Obongoloid is trying to preach to the United States and the leader and citizens around the world! He’s a Muslim too, for God sakes!
You said it all right there…
yes it seems they don’t like americans. if george washington was president..ALL american troops etc. would go back to america and let those silly buggers in the middle attend to their own affairs. when you interfere with the policies of other countries you are on a very slippery slope. and think of the money that could be saved..well thats after the dismissal of the money that is being made out of the american ‘assistance’ to these countries. like free oil and massive drug airlifts out of vietnam (1962-1975) and lately afghanistan.to washington for dispersal to drug ‘barons’ etc. creating 800 odd ‘bases’ around the world, bad mouthing anything to do with russia…btw..what has russia actually done to deserve this?. bad press is always hard to combat and the americans are past masters at doing just that. i believe in fairness. which is probably a bit silly..i mean its silly to think that unfairness is fair..if you get my drift. that little fish does not want that big fish chomping on him…but the big fish has to eat darn it! and its the same the world over. so if you wanna be in good health and not get killed in a foreign country fighting an unknown enemy..just stay home. well if thats not good enough get obama, bush, clinton etc and a few more congressmen, bank leaders, corporate bosses, arms manufacturering bosses and..fast track them into the forces and tell them to go fight the wars that they seem to want to set up. maybe there would be no wars..nice thought
We need to get out of the Middle East and stop supporting the islamic world. They are a VERY GOOD example of the “Dog that bites the hand that feeds it”.
True,, god bless them and there families..
Very true,,, god bless them and their families…
And I might further add, O will do nothing about this. I say “Bring all our soldiers home, and let them fight their own battles, or let us destroy all of those despicable Isis Muslims”. I am sick of these people murdering our American people.
You might check the numbers but I believe that more of their people are getting killed and vmost of the fatalities are innocents.But I agree with your statement about bringing our troops home.Ron Paul was right,huh?
LJ, I totally agree with you.
Why were Americans training in this facility?
Could it be that all Americans, civilian and military, are at great risk when working in the middle east? I think so.
Perhaps we should rethink the policy of troops on the ground wherever we need. It is insane to have American presence
in the middle east without proper safety back up or protection from attacks by terrorists/militants.
Wake up America! If were are in the region, do it up right or get out!
They don’t have to be trained to be enemies and killer’s.
This is there plane, and obama is there leader.
And he’s sending our troops in a slaughter house…I wish to god they remove this fraud the sooner the better…
The administration is “high fiving”. There is nothing that makes them happier than a dead American. And if it is a white Christian it makes the celebration soooo much better
How can we expect anything else from an ideology that wants to kill the great satan?
There the great satan!
It is time to bring our Men and Women home. We cannot help those who do not want help. There will always be a threat so long as we are there. We are training forces in Iraq, Afganastan, and other countries in the Middle East. The problem is that we are training these people with the idea that we are helping them learn to fight against groups like Isis and the Talaban. In reality, we are giving weapons, and training these people who are going to use the against us. Obtw, we are letting them in our country! With little to no screening, there is no way to know if they are a threat or not. And they ARE a threat. They are Muslums. They do not have the ability to “live and let live”. Their religion requires them to spread their beliefs, and to take out anyone who doesn’t convert. May God be with our Service members. And may God bless America. I feel that our country has opened our arms to the enemy, and we are going to see a very different country in the next 5 years.
The real problem is when America goes to war, we do not Declare War. There is a big difference between a political war and Declared War. Stop the political war and the world will be better off. The less muslims in any place in the world, the better off the world is. When you have an illegal Kenyan born muslim in charge of America, it’s not going to get better for America or American allies until the criminals that put this current criminal in an accountable position.
Right on!
In retaliation, their extended family should all die. An eye for an eye.
This country will never learn. These muslims hate us and will take every opportunity to kill an American, no matter where, no matter what country. God please care for these Servicemen’s families. RIP
2nd. Timothy Chapter 4 verse 7
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the Faith.
Jordan has been our staunchest ally in the Arab world. I served with Jordanian Royal Air Force mbrs while in our USAF. Like us, they have their share of nuts (look at recent incidents involving American military or American civilians employees thereof – some Muslim, some Christian, some ‘none of the above’. NO country can guarantee that none of their citizens, regardless of race, creed, color or religion will NOT go rogue.
I feel badly for these soldiers, both Jordanian & American, and offer my condolences. Unlike the unbalanced assailant, they were truly working for a better world!
Shalom Everyone,
Satan is running wild, all he needs is the right body to enter and arm it, and as the song goes “Bang Bang, I Shot You Dead”, but then again that’s where Satan lives, with “ESAW”.
LYABJ
I agree an eye for an eye kill the dogs
When you see one, you have seen them all. If you think they are so kind and deserving, wait until your neighbor get’s about half full of them. Then you will see what they are.
I agree an eye for an eye kill the dogs
Why the heck aren’t we sending them training videos?
We have to do something.
ARE THERE NOT ENOUGH SMART PEOPLE TO DO IT RIGHT??? Or something/somebody stays behind this NONSENSE???
The problem in Jordan is the huge influx of Palestinians, who over the years have infiltrated the country
WE are having to help the enemy fight their enemy. The muslims are still muslim and follow the koran/Quaran and allah is their god, one of 600 mohammed forced his people to accept not choose, there is no choice, either allah or death. Moderate is not real for they all worship allah and the 23 training camps in America that Obama won’t do anything about are going to unite with all the muslims in the sanctuary cities and rain hell on America. If you don’t havw a weapon ,GET ONE before they are taking your sons head while raping your daughter and wife. READ the foreign news, not Amer4ican, they share the truth as to what has happened since muslims invaded their countries. We now have city councils with a majority muslim rule and senators that are muslim are we this stupid? A Fox in the hen house doesn’t make it a hen it is a fox and the hen is America.
No Boots my ass obuma, the bloodshed of American blood is the responsibility of one Coward, and that Coward is Barry sotoroe obuma. Why is it so difficult to bring down the biggest Coward to ever disgrace the greatest country in the world, they keep telling us we are a country of laws, yet the powers who be, have grabbed their little brown envelopes filled with one hundred dollar bills to look the other way, while the lawless usurper destroys our country and Murders it’s citizens. To you Cowards in D.C. I hope the Spirits of our fore fathers are awakened as a result of your cowardness and haunt you for every drop of American Blood spilled, because you are cowards afraid of what you know is a phony and liar your allowing to tear down our country and destroy our land for an agenda of Communist socialism.
WELL SAID ELOCUTION.
quite simple. unleash the real dogs of war, or bring ALL our troops home.then, begin fighting them right here in the usa.
Either we destroy IS or we pull out of the region.It is time for the world to stop playing with these idiots.If the rest of the world is not
ready to defend themselves, we should tell them we will not rescue them when the muslims take over. the first thing should be to send
the refuges back to their own countries to fight themselves. This includes america. Also no sharia law should be allowed here.If this
administration refuses to abide by the constitution then they should be impeached.
As a Christian I can state that Westboro Baptist is not a Christian Church as we were given an 11th commandment to love our neighbor as ourselves and it was given no other stipulations like if they look like us, talk like us, walk like us or have the same faith we are to love and honor all! Total disregard to the one they claim to know and then preach hate and judgement is an abomination to Christ and the cross. If they can truly believe my Christ would be leading the charge with their signs and hate then they deserve the wrath they will face on their own judgement day and it will be the harshest against all they preach hate against. As for me and my house we honor all of our fallen men and women and those still serving. They gave their best to our flag, our Constitution and for America and all American’s. May they be blessed coming and going as we thank them and honor them for their courage, committment and love they bestow on us fighting evil on our behalf. Bless the grieving families left behind. God Bless our troops and America.
Sorry for this post. It got posted on the wrong thread…please ignore, as I was unable to delete it.
SAS
Jordan has a large percentage of so called “Palestinians”. In effect, the queen of Jordan is descendant of so called “Palestinians”.
The USA has been far too nice to many countries in general. The choice that the American President needs to make with the agreement of Congress is whether to go to play the Policeman worldwide to protect its interests, play a limited role and forge alliances with the World, or play splendid isolation. The last option has never worked, more so in the present world that that is so interdependent. The rest of the world presently perceives the US administration as weak all around . The US will only be able to forge true alliances with other nations when that perception is changed as result of its policies and actions. The US public feeling has been for a long time that playing the policeman is not worth the cost. I don’t pretend to know the correct solution to the problem, but the present perception of the US in this world needs to be changed. Otherwise every other nation will laugh at us.
Josias;
Every other nation is already laughing at us and who could blame them.
I have always said, and still believe, the route of all evil is religion.
I personally believe in God. Our God may be the same for all. Interpretation of “the word of God” has been written by man.
Men are governed by their experiences on earth…How many wars have been fought in the name of religion- Most of them! At least that is what we are lead to believe. Infact, it may be man’s greed for “more” that caused them to tell their followers it was the “will of God”. This has set up, in many religions, a total distrust of those who were of different religions. It has even split many of the same faith. Not too long ago, the Catholics and Protestants were killing one another.
Culture has dictated the form of punishment to be dolled out to those non-believers. Even the Pope ordered the protestants of a small village in Italy be murdered. That was not all that long ago. Others like Hitler, who had no religion, chose to blame the Jewish faith for being the religion to destroy because he believed they controlled the money in German.
I wonder if we were being invaded by Aliens, if it would be possible to put religion aside and work side by side without killing each other.
Until then, this senseless killing by one side or the other, will continue as long as the hatred, iinflicted by man unto man and in the name of religion , stops! It will not happen in my life.
The war in the Middle East will be determined by the Islamic people only. They have to deal with the ISSIS groups or factions of this group. They are like Hitler, accept that are doing it in the name of religion. They are killing there own people? The Islamic groups of the Middle East have to deal with this problem, as their very existence depends on it.
The Western World should remove themselves from this war altogether. If they insist, then form an army of volunteers under the UN and go about it in a mass assault. Have the people of the world stand together in sheer size and power! Destroy them totally, for that is their intention for everyone else who refuses to join them.
The people of Jordan are much better off with their current government than they will be if they succumb to radical Islamic leaders. The Islamic State can’t show that they have improved the quality of life for those forced into subjection under them. Killing the shooter is probably the best way to deal with these people. That prevents him from doing this again.
Americans have deep respect and appreciation inside Jordan community specially police and armed forces . The attack it self is a personal behavior because four Jordanians were injured and three were killed .Jordanian community disagree and refused these types of behaviors which could be happened all over the world..deep Condolences to victims family .
So much hate . . . . . . . .