{"id":62701,"date":"2015-11-09T08:15:46","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T13:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=62701"},"modified":"2015-11-09T08:13:27","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T13:13:27","slug":"jordanian-cop-shoots-two-us-trainers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62701","title":{"rendered":"Jordanian cop shoots two US trainers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Middle-East\/Jordanian-police-officer-kills-two-Americans-at-training-center-near-Amman-432474\">Reuters<\/a>, a Jordanian police officer opened fire upon and killed two US troops who were training Jordanian forces in that country. The murderer then killed himself;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Another security source said there were unconfirmed reports that at least three other US service personnel were injured,<\/p>\n<p>Jordan is a staunch US ally and part of the Washington-led coalition that is trying to defeat Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, both of which border Jordan.<\/p>\n<p>The country hosts several hundred US trainers who are part of a military program to bolster the kingdom&#8217;s defenses, including the stationing of F16 fighter jets that use Jordanian airfields to hit Islamic State positions in Syria.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, this highlights a problem with US forces training forces in the region during this war against the  Islamic State. Green-on-blue attacks committed against US forces killed scores of US troops in Afghanistan and they are particularly difficult to defend against because of US troops being outnumbered by their supposed allies. Jordan has been a friend to the US in our wars in the region, so this is particularly difficult.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/middle-east\/jordanian-policeman-kills-2-us-contractors-1-south-african-at-police-training-center-1.377943\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a> reports that a South African contractor was also killed in the same incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Reuters, a Jordanian police officer opened fire upon and killed two US troops who &hellip; <a title=\"Jordanian cop shoots two US trainers\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62701\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jordanian cop shoots two US trainers<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}