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So this happened in November

Three U.S. service members were killed Friday in a shooting incident at a military base south of Jordan’s capital city Amman, a U.S. official said.

The service members were in vehicles approaching the gate of a Jordanian military training facility, where they came under small arms fire, the official said. The U.S. was working with Jordanian officials to investigate further.

Jordanian state news agency Petra first said the shooting occurred at the entrance to the King Faisal Air Base, in the al-Jafr area south of Amman, after the vehicles carrying the service members failed to stop at the security gates.

The agency later dropped the reference to a vehicle failing to stop at a gate, saying only that there was an “exchange” of gunfire.

A Jordanian military source reiterated to CBS News, however, that the incident occurred at a gate to the base, when a vehicle carrying the trainers failed to stop.

The Jordanian source told CBS News it appeared to be an accidental shooting rather than terrorism, but the nature of the incident remained unclear.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/jordan-air-base-shooting-leaves-us-military-trainers-dead-reports/



The jordanian soldier was sentenced to life in prison

A Jordanian soldier was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison on Monday for the deaths of three United States soldiers whom he shot at an air base in November.

The soldier, First Sgt. Ma’arik al-Tawayha, 39, had pleaded not guilty, saying that he opened fire because the Americans had failed to stop their car as they approached the gate of the air base, and that he thought the base was under attack. “I was doing my job,” he said as he was led from the courtroom.

Jordanian officials initially believed his account — angering their American counterparts — but later backed away from it, and charged Sergeant Tawayha with premeditated murder.

The trial, which lasted over a month, did not establish a motive for the killings, but Jordanian officials said there was no evidence that Sergeant Tawayha had ties to extremist groups. The F.B.I. has opened an investigation into the case, as is common in matters that potentially involve terrorism.

The victims — Staff Sgt. Matthew C. Lewellen, 27, of Kirksville, Mo.; Staff Sgt. Kevin J. McEnroe, 30, of Tucson; and Staff Sgt. James F. Moriarty, 27, of Kerrville, Tex. — were killed shortly before noon on Nov. 4.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/07/17/world/middleeast/jordan-killing-us-soldiers.html

 

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