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Why in the hell do we have troops in Jordan? _________________________ | |||
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We’ve had troops in Jordon a long time. Mostly to train with the Jordanians who have been excellent partners in the GWOT, but also on the border with Syria to get around troop caps in country. We are deeply spread throughout the theater, and long overdue for a congressional audit to ensure DOD is meeting national intent. | |||
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So, engineers to either build shit or blow shit up. Aviation to transport said engineers to and from said shit. Logistics to provide the engineers with all the shit they need. And security troops just in case somebody decides to start some shit. Or is all that just a | |||
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Oh, and now CAIR is pissed at Pelosi. Eating their own again... | |||
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What is Tower 22, the base in Jordan where 3 US troops were killed? https://www.armytimes.com/news...-troops-were-killed/ A little-discussed U.S. military desert outpost in the far reaches of northeastern Jordan has become the focus of international attention after a drone attack killed three American troops and injured at least 34 others there. “Eight personnel that received injuries required evacuation from Jordan to higher level care, but they are in stable condition,” U.S. Central Command said in a statement Sunday evening. “All other service members are being fully evaluated for follow-on care.” The base, known as Tower 22, sits near the demilitarized zone on the border between Jordan and Syria along a sandy, bulldozed berm marking the DMZ’s southern edge. The Iraqi border is only six miles away. Tower 22 began as a Jordanian outpost watching the border, then saw an increased U.S. presence there after American forces entered Syria in late 2015. The small installation includes U.S. engineering, aviation, logistics and security troops with about 350 U.S. Army and Air Force personnel deployed there. The base’s location offers a site for American forces to infiltrate and quietly leave Syria. A small American garrison at al-Tanf in Syria is just 12 miles north of Tower 22. That base is along a Syrian highway leading into Iraq and ultimately Mosul, once a prominent base of the Islamic State group. It’s also a potential weapons shipment route over the road for Iran. The area is known as Rukban, a vast arid region that once saw a refugee camp spring up on the Syrian side over the rise of the Islamic State group’s so-called caliphate in 2014. At its height, more than 100,000 people lived there, blocked by Jordan from coming across into the kingdom at the time over concerns about infiltration by the extremist group. Those concerns grew out of a 2016 car bomb attack there that killed seven Jordanian border guards The camp has dwindled in the time since to some 7,500 people because of a lack of supplies reaching there, according to United Nations estimates. U.S. troops long have used Jordan, a kingdom bordering Iraq, Israel, the Palestinian territory of the West Bank, Saudi Arabia and Syria, as a basing point. Some 3,000 American troops typically are stationed across Jordan. However, the U.S. presence in Jordan risks angering a population that’s already held mass demonstrations against Israel’s war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip over civilian casualties in a conflict that’s already killed over 26,000 Palestinians. Estimates suggest some 3 million of Jordan’s 11.5 million people are Palestinian. Widespread unrest could threaten the rule of King Abdullah II, a key American ally. Jordan initially denied the Tower 22 base existed within its border after the attack Sunday. _________________________ "Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." Mark Twain | |||
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Would be interesting if this is actually a tactic or, they got very lucky. Odd that there's no IFF or some kind of emitter notifying US operators and air defense of who's who. U.S. Failed to Stop Attack in Jordan After Mixup Over Drone Identity Enemy drone approached its target at the same time a U.S. drone was also returning to base
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No one is probably going to talk about this, but the fact that two out of the three service members killed in Jordan were women I find to be a disgrace to the nation. A country that sends its daughters to fight and die on a battlefield has lost its way. ~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan | |||
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Didn't Obama gift them a drone ? | |||
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Give it time, the news is just over 24-hrs old. I wouldn't hold my breath though, the barbarity that Hamas committed on Oct 7, should've elicited wide-spread condemnation and outrage across the feminist world, instead we got lots of explaining and false equivocating. The fact that these were state's Guardsman should give the public something to think about...why are they being used instead of active duty soldier? Jordan drone attack: 3 Georgia soldiers killed in Tower 22 strike
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My guess is that the Iranian drone followed the US drone back to base, to avoid being shot down. Or timed the drone to beat the US drone back to base. Sounds like the US personnel were not fully observant. I wonder how far apart the drones were? 100 yards, or 1/4 mile? Anything more than that they should have realized something was wrong. -c1steve | |||
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The enemy isn't stupid. No doubt the base is under surveillance and a pattern of behavior would've been established- tracking flights, reactions and processes. Many of the problems in Somalia in the 90's was complacency and under-estimating the opposition by military and political leadership. | |||
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I'm curious as to what Jordan's response is going to be...if anything. Iran just bombed their country after all. ________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton. | |||
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Nothing but a stern look. Iran would hand Jordon their ass, and stir up a shitstorm as Israel is dealing with, since the groups that make up all "Palestinian" factions, are the same people who make up Jordon. Jordon still has the bad taste in their mouth from the 60-70s. "the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב! | |||
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More American blood and treasure expended in a fruitless effort to keep these savages from killing each other. Pull all our troops from these places. Destroy any infrastructure we have built there. Fully support our only ally in the area - Israel. And let them kill each other off. End of Earth: 2 Miles Upper Peninsula: 4 Miles | |||
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It's been kinda quiet lately. Time to send a few terrorists on to their raisins. https://twitter.com/Rosenstein.../1752374982347206945 | |||
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All the rifles had white tape ? Friendly identification ? | |||
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IDF confirms: Water being pumped into Hamas tunnels https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/384417 In cooperation between units in the IDF and the Ministry of Defense, various tools were developed to channel large volumes of water into Hamas’ terror tunnels in the Gaza Strip. This is part of a range of tools deployed by the IDF to neutralize the threat of Hamas’ subterranean network of tunnels. These capabilities consist of installing pumps and pipes, the materialization of engineering developments, and the ability to locate tunnel shafts suitable for the deployment of these tools. The capability was developed in a professional way, including analysis of the soil characteristics and the water systems in the area to ensure that damage is not done to the area's groundwater. The pumping of water was only carried out in tunnel routes and locations that were suitable, matching the method of operation to each case. The IDF stated that the project was developed following combat procedures, accelerated force-building efforts, and training forces with technological expertise. This tool is one of a range of capabilities developed by the IDF and Israel’s security establishment in recent years to operate against Hamas' underground infrastructure in the Gaza Strip. These efforts against Hamas include air strikes, underground combat operations, and special operations with technological assets. This tool represents a significant engineering and technological breakthrough in combating the threat of underground terror infrastructure and is the result of a collaborative effort between various bodies in Israel’s security establishment. _________________________ "Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." Mark Twain | |||
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regarding the video para posted above https://hotair.com/ed-morrisse...ank-hospital-n608373 Acting on intelligence that Hamas’ leadership abroad had coordinated weapons distribution from a cell embedded in a Jenin hospital, the IDF conducted a raid and killed its leader and two other operatives. Hamas had planned to run another October 7-style massacre out of the West Bank using the Ibn Sina hospital as its command center, Israel claims: According to a joint statement by the IDF, Israel Police’s YAMAM counterterrorism forces, and the Shin Bet, Hamas terrorist Mohammad Jalamna was killed during the operation, along with two fellow terrorists who hid alongside him at the hospital. 27-year-old Jalamna, a resident of the Jenin refugee camp, held direct communications with Hamas leadership abroad. According to the statement, he was responsible for transferring weaponry and ammunition to Hamas terrorists across the West Bank for shooting attacks targeting Israelis. … Furthermore, Jalamna used the Jenin hospital as a secret base of operations as he was planning an infiltration attack akin to and inspired by the October 7 massacre, it added. The other two operatives killed in the raid had a long history of terror activities. Brothers Mohammed and Basel Ghawazi had participated in armed attacks on Israelis in and around the West Bank after the war began, apparently hoping to create a full second front to complicate the IDF’s logistics in Gaza. The Jerusalem Post identifies Basel Ghawazi as a Palestinian Islamic Jihad operative, while Mohammed belonged to “the Jenin battalions,” apparently a reference to Hamas. | |||
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Possible. Low-cost, low-tech way, especially when everyone around is wearing the same garb. | |||
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The only good terrorist... https://twitter.com/Osint613/s.../1752314734286680355 ...is a dead terrorist. ____________________________________________________ "I am your retribution." - Donald Trump, speech at CPAC, March 4, 2023 | |||
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