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enhanced_deficit
11-14-2016, 06:42 PM
Army Special Forces soldiers killed in Jordan were working for the CIA

Army soldiers move the flag-draped remains of Army Staff Sgt. Kevin McEnroe, of Tucson, Ariz., from a C-17 aircraft at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware on Nov. 7. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

By Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Joby Warrick November 12

The three Army Special Forces soldiers killed at a Jordanian military base this month were working for a CIA program to train moderate Syrian fighters when they were shot at a checkpoint under still-unclear circumstances, U.S. officials said.
The Nov. 4 slayings of the three soldiers is believed to be the deadliest single incident involving a CIA team since December 2009, when seven officers and contractors were killed in a suicide bombing in Khost, Afghanistan.

The soldiers, identified as Staff Sgt. Matthew Lewellen, Staff Sgt. Kevin McEnroe and Staff Sgt. James Moriarty, were among roughly 2,000 U.S. troops working in Jordan while participating in the U.S.-led campaign fighting the Islamic State. Some of the troops have been assigned to mobile artillery units along the Jordanian border while others assist CIA-led training programs for Syrian opposition fighters.

The shooting in Jordan comes on the heels of the deaths of two CIA paramilitary officers killed in Afghanistan, according to U.S. officials.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/army-special-forces-soldiers-killed-in-jordan-were-working-for-the-cia/2016/11/11/8c6b53de-7b66-40ed-9077-bf954070f2be_story.html

phill4paul
11-14-2016, 06:53 PM
S.F. works with C.I.A. all the time. This is news?

oyarde
11-14-2016, 06:59 PM
What a waste of 3 young men that could have been doing something better than hanging in Jordan .

AuH20
11-14-2016, 07:00 PM
Too bad they don't show this in the recruitment commercials.

enhanced_deficit
11-15-2016, 12:37 AM
S.F. works with C.I.A. all the time. This is news?

No, but working for them seems to be news.

But the bigger part of news is not working relationships but Americans dying in Jordan at the hands of a Jordanian soldier while trying to train Syrians as part of Obama's "Assad must go" strategy.