Reuter - The U.S.
Defense Department on Sunday identified three U.S. Army trainers killed on
Friday when their convoy came under fire as it entered a military base in
Jordan.
The Pentagon
said the three were members part of an Army Special Forces Group based at Fort
Campbell, Kentucky.
In a
statement, it identified the dead soldiers as Staff Sergeants Matthew C.
Lewellen, 27, of Lawrence, Kansas; Kevin J.
McEnroe, 30, of Tucson, Arizona;
and James F. Moriarty, 27, of Kerrville, Texas.
Details of the
deadly incident - unusual given the close political and military ties between
Washington and Amman - remain under investigation.
A Jordanian
military source told Reuters the U.S. trainers were fired on by Jordanian
security forces when they failed to stop at the gate of Prince Faisal air base
in the south of the country.
Other
Jordanian sources, however, said they could not rule out political motives in
the incident.
Reuters
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