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November 10, 2015

Jordan: 2 U.S. Contractors Among 5 Killed by Cop at Training Center 
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President Obama has promised a full investigation after a Jordanian
police officer killed two American contractors, two Jordanians and a
South African at a U.S.-funded police training center near Amman. The
gunman was killed in a shootout. Four others, including two Americans,
were wounded. The slain Americans were reportedly contractors with the
military firm Dyn Corp, working for a State Department program to train
Palestinian security forces. Obama denounced the shooting Monday.

President Obama: "The fact that someone dressed in military uniform
carried out an attack at a training facility in which it appears that
there may have been two or three U.S. citizens killed and a number of
other individuals injured. Obviously, a full investigation is taking
place. We take this very seriously, and we'll be working closely with
the Jordanians to determine exactly what happened."

 

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