Slain U.S. troops worked for CIA
Jordan deaths focus of probe
By Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Joby Warrick The Washington Post
Posted: November 14, 2016 at 3:20 a.m.
Updated: November 14, 2016 at 3:20 a.m.
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The three Army Special Forces soldiers killed at a Jordanian military base this month were working for a CIA program to train moderate Syrian fighters when they were shot at a checkpoint under still-unclear circumstances, U.S. officials said.
The Nov. 4 attack is thought to be the deadliest single encounter involving a CIA team since December 2009, when seven officers and contractors were killed in a suicide bombing in Khost, Afghanistan.
The three soldiers -- all members of the 5th Special Forces Group based at Fort Campbell, Ky. -- were killed by a Jordanian soldier at an entry control point to Prince Faisal Air Base near Jafr, in the southern desert about 150 miles south of the capital, Amman, according to the officials. The shooter also was wounded in what was described by U.S. and Middle Eastern sources as an exchange of gunfire.
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