It is an idea that never works. I don't remember the year, it was when Bush
was pumping out this nonsense. Fifty Iraqi soldiers trained in Jordan were
slaughtered on their way back to Iraq after their training concluded.
Iraqi police take up position during a raid and weapons search operation west of Baquba, about 50 km (30 miles) northeast of Baghdad, December 1, 2013.
Reuters/Mohammed Adnan
By Missy Ryan
January 10, 2014
(Reuters) - The Obama administration (click here) is considering providing new training to elite Iraqi forces in Jordan as U.S. officials seek ways to help the government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki repel an al Qaeda campaign near its western border.
was pumping out this nonsense. Fifty Iraqi soldiers trained in Jordan were
slaughtered on their way back to Iraq after their training concluded.
Iraqi police take up position during a raid and weapons search operation west of Baquba, about 50 km (30 miles) northeast of Baghdad, December 1, 2013.Reuters/Mohammed Adnan
By Missy Ryan
January 10, 2014
(Reuters) - The Obama administration (click here) is considering providing new training to elite Iraqi forces in Jordan as U.S. officials seek ways to help the government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki repel an al Qaeda campaign near its western border.
Earlier this week, U.S. officials said the United States was in discussions with Iraq about training its elite forces in a third country, which would allow Washington to provide a modest measure of new support against militants in the absence of a troop deal allowing U.S. soldiers to operate within Iraq.
"There is discussion about this, and Jordan is included in the discussions," a U.S. defense official said.
The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that a privately run special operations training center near Amman was one of the sites being considered....
See, the forces trained by the USA and/or Jordan are better equipped than anyone else in the area. So, the soldiers are either killed or kidnapped when they reach Iraq for their equipment. Then the Iraqi military or Iraqi police are less equipped from those they seek to control. It is a perfect paradigm to escalate civil war.
See, the forces trained by the USA and/or Jordan are better equipped than anyone else in the area. So, the soldiers are either killed or kidnapped when they reach Iraq for their equipment. Then the Iraqi military or Iraqi police are less equipped from those they seek to control. It is a perfect paradigm to escalate civil war.
BAGHDAD, Iraq - An armed group kidnapped 31 Iraqi policemen (click here) who were returning training in Jordan, authorities said Wednesday, and a suicide car bomber rammed a U.S. convoy north of Baghdad, killing 10 people, hospital officials said....
It started with 200 US Troops. Then there were military exercises with Jordan, now there are 900 US Troops stationed in Jordan.
It started with 200 US Troops. Then there were military exercises with Jordan, now there are 900 US Troops stationed in Jordan.
Jordan hosting 900 US troops to ‘boost defence’ — Ensour (click here)
Agencies
June 22, 2013
Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour on Saturday said the Kingdom is hosting 900 US military personnel to bolster its defence capabilities against potential threats from the Syrian civil war.
The first Jordanian public official to speak publicly of the numbers of US troops in the Kingdom, Ensour told reporters Saturday that 200 of the personnel were experts training for how to handle a chemical attack, according to AP.
He said the remaining 700 are manning a Patriot missile defence system and F-16 fighter jets which Washington deployed this month in case the Syrian war worsens.
Jordan is concerned its larger northern neighbour would use chemical weapons against Syrian refugee camps in Jordan and other neighbouring countries, or that the stockpile may fall into the hands of Al Qaeda or other militants if President Bashar Assad loses control.
Also Saturday, Ensour denied an American newspaper report saying that the CIA and US special operations forces were training rebels from neighbouring Syria on its territory.
“There is no training in our country whatsoever of Syrian opposition forces,” Ensour told a group of journalists including one from AFP.
“The only Syrians we are dealing with in our country are refugees. There isn’t any training” of Syrian insurgents in Jordan, he insisted.
On Friday the Los Angeles Times reported that the CIA and US special forces have been training Syrian rebels at a new US base in the desert in southwest Jordan since November....
Does everyone think the USA military industrial complex is stupid? They attempt to manipulate the civilian branch of their hierarchy and the American public all the time. This is one of those times.
Jordan is a good friend of the USA. It has a right, as an ally, to receive protections from the USA when needed. But, to train soldiers to send into Syria and/or Iraq with the 'idea' they are going to remain alive and actually win battles is stupid.
Eventually, all the munitions and military armaments given to the countries most unstable and in chronic civil war in the Mideast will fall into the hands of those unintended to receive them. It happens all the time and is the best reason to end this hideous practice of nation building.
Any involvement by the USA military industrial complex in the Mideast equates to escalation of tensions in a country, an escalation to civil war and then unending conflicts among warring factions and ethnicities. The United Nation has a convention to end the exporting of arms to the areas where conflict exists. It is time the USA obverse that directive and end the killing of innocent people at the hand of their own failings.
Jordan is a good friend of the USA. It has a right, as an ally, to receive protections from the USA when needed. But, to train soldiers to send into Syria and/or Iraq with the 'idea' they are going to remain alive and actually win battles is stupid.
Eventually, all the munitions and military armaments given to the countries most unstable and in chronic civil war in the Mideast will fall into the hands of those unintended to receive them. It happens all the time and is the best reason to end this hideous practice of nation building.
Any involvement by the USA military industrial complex in the Mideast equates to escalation of tensions in a country, an escalation to civil war and then unending conflicts among warring factions and ethnicities. The United Nation has a convention to end the exporting of arms to the areas where conflict exists. It is time the USA obverse that directive and end the killing of innocent people at the hand of their own failings.
