Alwaght- Eight people have been killed in an attack on a US-funded police training facility near the Jordanian capital, Amman.
The attacker was a senior co-trainer who had the rank of captain; a Jordanian security source said adding that among those killed are US citizens and one South African.
The attack took place at Mwaqar camp, funded by Washington - a facility for training Iraqi and Palestinian special security forces.
Earlier reports had claimed that the assailant committed suicide after killing the contractors but officials say the attacker had been shot dead by security forces.
The gunman's motive for opening fire at the U.S.-funded security training facility were not immediately known and one of the U.S. sources cautioned that the situation is very fluid.
Jordan is a key ally of the United States in the Middle East as well as an active part of the so-called US-led coalition against ISIS Takfiri terror group. The US is using Jordanian airfields to station fighter jets for its military campaign in Syria.
The United States and its allies have been conducting airstrikes against alleged ISIS extremists inside Syria without any authorization from Damascus or a UN mandate since September last year.
Jordan also hosts hundreds of American military personnel as part of a program to allegedly reinforce the kingdom’s defense.
This is while other reports say ISIS terrorists, who were initially trained by the CIA in Jordan in 2012 to destabilize the Syrian government, now control parts of Syria and Iraq. They have been engaged in crimes against humanity in the areas under their control.
Observers say while the US and its allies claim they are fighting against terrorist groups like ISIS, they in fact helped create and train those organizations to affect their policies in the Middle East.
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