A one-way attack drone that killed three US troops in northeast Jordan may have followed an American drone into the US base, US officials told The Associated Press on Monday.
The officials said that because of the timing, US forces may have thought the enemy drone was an American one and didn’t try to shoot it down. The US does not have large air defense systems at the small outpost in Jordan on the Syrian border, known as Tower 22, but it does have counter-drone systems.
US officials said the drone hit a trailer where troops sleep, killing three and wounding more than 40. The three slain soldiers were members of the US Army Reserves and were identified by the Pentagon as Sgt. William Jerome Rivers, 46, of Carrollton, Georgia, Spc. Kennedy Ladon Sanders, 24, of Waycross, Georgia, and Spc. Breonna Alexsondria Moffett, 23, of Savannah, Georgia.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre came under heavy criticism for saying the three American soldiers died fighting on behalf of the “administration” rather than the US.
Little is known about the secretive US base at Tower 22, which US officials say houses 350 troops. It supports the US occupation of eastern Syria as it is about 12 miles across the border from Al Tanf garrison, one of the main US bases in Syria.
Jordan initially denied the attack targeted its territory and said it happened at Al Tanf. But Jordan later put out a statement acknowledging the incident occurred on an outpost close to the Syrian border, according to The Jordan Times.
According to The Telegraph, the Jordanian government does not officially acknowledge Tower 22’s existence. Jordan also likely doesn’t want to appear too close to the US amid the US-backed Israeli slaughter in Gaza. But Amman is a long-time partner of the US and received about $1.6 billion in aid from the US in 2023.
“White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre came under heavy criticism for saying the three American soldiers died fighting on behalf of the “administration” rather than the US.” For the crime of telling the truth, she should be in jail with Assange!
Freudian slip.
Anyone else notice the victims were African or Black Americans? Should we expect Biden at another black church again soon? …What’s that? …Why are you yelling at me? You heard it from her/their mouth. I mean wouldn’t it be nice if he thanked them for dying for his administration?
Yes, the Russians picked up on that a while ago and are running their propaganda accordingly. Their repeaters are actively posting that on blogs. Keep up the good Kremlin work.
They didn’t die for the “administration” or for the US … they died for MICIMATT.
Must have been a very long trailer housing more 43 people… 100 meter long…?!
A double-wide trailer set up with an open floor plan could accommodate that many if set up in squad bay style. But it’s not obvious that all of the wounded would have been in the trailer in any case. Anyone around it or in adjacent buildings would also have been vulnerable.
The method of following another aircaft into Syria, in its radar shadow, is a standard and long practiced tactic of the constant Israeli airstrikes inside Syria. Israel is the one power that has practiced and perfected this.
Others could have watched and learned. Or it could be a false flag by the nation that does this constantly (cui bono?).
There are thousands of Iranian made drones all over the world, much used in Ukraine fighting, for example. That someone got hold of one does not prove Iran’s control of it.
Outrageous? No more than the calculated (much lied about) attack on the USS Liberty. We know they would do that, because they did.
Cui bono indeed …
The USS Liberty was a fog of war friendly fire event. Take one’s tin foil hat off and ask yourself what would Israel gain by committing the attack with clearly marked Israel aircraft and ships.
What Israel would gain by attacking a clearly marked and easily identifiable US Navy vessel using clearly market Israeil aircraft and ships is indeed an interesting question.
But a question being interesting doesn’t change the fact that the event the question is about happened.
Let’s hear what the survivors of the USS Liberty attack have to say about the fog of war that day.
https://youtu.be/EJ3js-0svMw?feature=shared
“. . . ask yourself what would Israel gain by committing the attack with clearly marked Israel aircraft and ships.”
The answer to that might be, “It depends on whether or not there would be/were surviving witnesses.”
As you may know, Tim, many of the crew members of the Liberty, a JAG officer who was counsel to the Navy Court of Inquiry, the Secretary of State at the time, and a long list of other extremely well-informed individuals don’t agree with you.
Israel used this tactic to hide behind a Russian plane that Syria mistakenly shut downed…!
The did in fact die for the administration, since Congress no longer holds the power of the purse when it comes to financing the president’s war stories.
Our dear leader is just a Scholz with nukes. There’s no moral core.
The people no longer hold the power. .