The Attack Was In Jordan, But Jordan Plays Dumb | The Gateway Pundit

Wow! Talk about a Charley Foxtrot (aka Cluster F*ck). CENTCOM (i.e., U.S. Central Command put out a press launch regarding the Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) assault on its base located on the northern border of Jordan usually often called Tower 22. Why is it a Charley Foxtrot? Because of it’s now clear that Jordan didn’t want this base acknowledged and is detest to admit that it has U.S. troops in its territory.

The Kingdom of Jordan wasted no time in denying that this took place inside Jordan:

Jordanian Minister of Authorities Communications Muhannad Mubaidin talked about Sunday that the assault concentrating on U.S. forces near the Syrian border didn’t occur inside Jordan.

Mubaidin knowledgeable the state-run Al Mamlaka TV that the assault centered the al-Tanf base in southeastern Syria.

I do not know what the character of the basing settlement between Jordan and the US. Normally, a bunch nation would stipulate that the U.S. would possibly (or couldn’t) acknowledge military operations or actions. On this case it seems to be like like CENTCOM issued the assertion regarding the assault with out consulting with the Authorities of Jordan. This would possibly suggest that going forward, the Jordanians would possibly ask the US to shut down its operations and switch each half all through the border into Syria. I take into consideration my former colleagues on the State Division are scrambling to aim to un-ruffle Jordan’s feathers. At a time when the U.S. is decided to keep up its allies inside the space on board with U.S. protection, this generally is a essential black eye for U.S./Jordanian relations.

The Pentagon is being very stingy with particulars surrounding the assault. This was not a small drone. That’s the form of harm and casualty rely you’ll get from one factor like a Hellfire missile. I’m not saying that was what was used. Nonetheless the united stateswas big and carried a sturdy warhead of some type.

The alternative oddity is that U.S. military sources are claiming that the U.S. forces that it was a “nice” aircraft, which is supposed to elucidate why no air safety was activated. Here is the latest excuse:

American air defenses didn’t intercept an assault drone that killed three U.S. troops and wounded dozens in Jordan because of the incoming aircraft was mistaken for a nice drone returning to the underside, officers talked about Monday. . . .

The weaponized drone struck the troopers’ residing quarters, described as containerized housing, at a facility usually often called Tower 22 in northeastern Jordan, the place its border converges with Syria and Iraq. Sabrina Singh, a Pentagon spokeswoman, talked about the attack occurred early Sunday as personnel on the bottom have been nonetheless in mattress asleep.

The Pentagon has revised the number of personnel injured inside the assault, from 34 to better than 40, Singh talked about. One different official, who like some others spoke on the state of affairs of anonymity to clarify the military’s ongoing analysis of the incident, talked about 47 troops have been wounded on account of the incident.

Fifty entire casualties? Holy smoke. I really feel the one drone inside the U.S. arsenal packing that form of punch is the MQ Predator B:

The MQ-9 carries various weapons along with the GBU-12 Paveway II laser-guided bomb, the AGM-114 Hellfire II air-to-ground missiles, the AIM-9 Sidewinder,^[13] and the GBU-38 Joint Direct Assault Munition (JDAM).

So what was it? Has Iran or one other nation or group obtained its arms on a system just like the MQ 9 drone? Or was this a ballistic missile that the air safety didn’t interact? The current story regarding the tyrpe of weapon used is not going to be the fact. What’s particular is that regardless of air safety system in place on that base failed.

I discussed quite a few the latest developments in Ukraine and the assault on Tower 22 with the Determine this morning:

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