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>RE: 1stTSC
>Which ME countries donated to the CF pre_2016 election?
>Which countries did 1stTSC deliver military equipment to pre_2016 election?
>Those who are able to answer these questions will be shocked. Just a coincidence? Are you really surprised anymore?
>Read very carefully. I can't say too much. Connect the dots anons
>“ The FBI is leading the investigation but so far has not been able to question the shooter because he is in a medically-induced coma.”
Disturbing details emerge in deaths of 3 American soldiers in Jordan
evening-news
By David Martin
November 17, 2016 / 7:03 PM / CBS News
CBS Evening News
Disturbing details emerge in deaths of 3 American soldiers in Jordan
evening-news
By David Martin
November 17, 2016 / 7:03 PM / CBS News
A new and sinister picture is emerging in the shooting deaths of three American soldiers earlier this month in Jordan, an important U.S. ally in the Middle East.
When Army Sgt. James Moriarity’s body came home, U.S. officials said a video of the incident in which he and two other American soldiers were killed appeared to show a deliberate terrorist attack not, as was first believed, a tragic accident.
jordan-american-soldiers-killed-2-2016-11-16.jpg
The body of an American soldier killed in Jordan on Nov. 3, 2016. CBS News
The three soldiers were all Green Berets working for the CIA in Jordan, training Syrian rebels. U.S. officials say the security camera video shows several American vehicles stopped in broad daylight at the entrance to the Jordanian air field where the Green Berets were based. The first was allowed to pass through the gate, but then a guard suddenly opened fire on the second vehicle, killing both Americans inside. The Americans in the third and fourth vehicles jumped out and started returning fire. The Jordanian guard shot and killed one of them before he was wounded by the other.
Jordanian officials originally blamed the Americans for failing to stop at the gate. But the U.S. embassy in Jordan said in a statement there is “absolutely no credible evidence” that they did not follow proper procedures.
The FBI is leading the investigation but so far has not been able to question the shooter because he is in a medically-induced coma.
ALL LB
>RE: 1stTSC
>Which ME countries donated to the CF pre_2016 election?
>Which countries did 1stTSC deliver military equipment to pre_2016 election?
>Those who are able to answer these questions will be shocked. Just a coincidence? Are you really surprised anymore?
>Read very carefully. I can't say too much. Connect the dots anons
>“ The FBI is leading the investigation but so far has not been able to question the shooter because he is in a medically-induced coma.”
Disturbing details emerge in deaths of 3 American soldiers in Jordan
evening-news
By David Martin
November 17, 2016 / 7:03 PM / CBS News
CBS Evening News
Disturbing details emerge in deaths of 3 American soldiers in Jordan
evening-news
By David Martin
November 17, 2016 / 7:03 PM / CBS News
A new and sinister picture is emerging in the shooting deaths of three American soldiers earlier this month in Jordan, an important U.S. ally in the Middle East.
When Army Sgt. James Moriarity’s body came home, U.S. officials said a video of the incident in which he and two other American soldiers were killed appeared to show a deliberate terrorist attack not, as was first believed, a tragic accident.
jordan-american-soldiers-killed-2-2016-11-16.jpg
The body of an American soldier killed in Jordan on Nov. 3, 2016. CBS News
The three soldiers were all Green Berets working for the CIA in Jordan, training Syrian rebels. U.S. officials say the security camera video shows several American vehicles stopped in broad daylight at the entrance to the Jordanian air field where the Green Berets were based. The first was allowed to pass through the gate, but then a guard suddenly opened fire on the second vehicle, killing both Americans inside. The Americans in the third and fourth vehicles jumped out and started returning fire. The Jordanian guard shot and killed one of them before he was wounded by the other.
Jordanian officials originally blamed the Americans for failing to stop at the gate. But the U.S. embassy in Jordan said in a statement there is “absolutely no credible evidence” that they did not follow proper procedures.
The FBI is leading the investigation but so far has not been able to question the shooter because he is in a medically-induced coma.>>18775883
>When Army Sgt. James Moriarity’s body came home,
CBS couldn't bother to spell the name correctly?
JAMES MORIARTY OBITUARY
James "Jimmy" Francis Moriarty
1989-2016
We mourn the loss of our son, brother and soldier, Staff Sergeant James "Jimmy" Francis Moriarty, 27, who was killed while on active duty in Jordan on November 4th. Anyone who met him would agree that he was one of the most kind, warm, and brilliant people they ever had the pleasure to know. He was a proud member of the U.S. Army 5th Special Forces Group of Fort Campbell, Kentucky. He enlisted in the US Army on September 13th, 2011. He attended Special Forces Assessment and Selection in May of 2012 and was selected to attend the Special Forces Qualification Course. He graduated in December of 2013 as a Special Forces Weapons Sergeant. Upon graduation, he was assigned to 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne) at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. He has deployed three times to the Central Command Area of Responsibility in support of contingency operations. A Houston native, Jimmy attended Strake Jesuit College Preparatory and then the University of Texas where he received a B.A. in Economics and was a member of the Sigma Epsilon fraternity. He is survived by his parents, Houston lawyer James R. Moriarty, his mother, Cindy Moriarty of Kerrville, Texas, and his sisters Rebecca Moriarty of Houston, Texas and Melissa Moriarty of Bogotá, Colombia. Services are to be held at the gymnasium of Annunciation Orthodox School, 3600 Yoakum Boulevard, Houston, Texas at 2:30PM on Saturday, November 12th, 2016. We welcome all who would like to be present to support Jimmy's family. Funeral services will be held at a later date at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia.
> https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/houstonchronicle/name/james-moriarty-obituary?id=11517123
>Disturbing details emerge in deaths of 3 American soldiers in Jordan
>JAMES MORIARTY OBITUARY
>The three soldiers were all Green Berets working for the CIA in Jordan, training Syrian rebels.
Staff Sgt James F. Moriarty
Died November 4, 2016 Serving During Operation Inherent Resolve
27, of Kerrville, Texas; assigned to the 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne), Fort Campbell, Kentucky; died in Jafr, Jordan, of wounds sustained when his convoy came under fire entering a Jordanian military base.
The three service members killed Friday in Jordan were Green Berets from 5th Special Forces Group, the Army announced Sunday.
The Fort Campbell, Kentucky-based soldiers — Staff Sgt. Matthew Lewellen, Staff Sgt. Kevin McEnroe and Staff Sgt. James Moriarty— died Friday after they reportedly came under fire while entering a Jordanian military base. The incident is still under investigation.
The three soldiers had almost 20 years of service between them.
Lewellen, 27, of Kirksville, Missouri, had more than six years of service.
His awards and decorations include the Bronze Star Medal, the Army Commendation Medal, the Afghanistan Campaign Medal, the Overseas Service Ribbon and the NATO Medal.
Lewellen, the second son of three children and husband to Renee Laque, was a standout high school athlete who was enrolled at the University of Kansas when he decided to serve his country, his family said in a statement.
He joined the Army in February 2010, graduating from Special Forces training in November 2012. After a 2014 deployment to Afghanistan, Lewellen was on his second deployment to Jordan when he was killed, according to his family.
"Matt was a born leader, a true American," his parents said, according to the statement. "He wanted to be a soldier since third grade, and he was doing what he loved to do."
Lewellen, who was known for his sense of humor, "was proud to serve his country, and he loved the men and women with whom he served," his family said.
Services for Lewellen will take place in his hometown of Kirksville. He will be buried at Missouri Veterans Cemetery in Jacksonville, Missouri, his family said. The family also asked, in lieu of flowers, that donations be made in Lewellen's name to nonprofit organizations that serve military families.
McEnroe, 30, of Tuscon, Arizona, had more than eight years of service. This was his third overseas tour.
His awards include the Army Commendation Medal, the Army Achievement Medal, the Afghanistan Campaign Medal, and the Army Service Ribbon.
Moriarty, 27, of Kerrville, Texas, had more than five years of service. This was his second overseas tour.
His awards include the Good Conduct Medal, National Defense Service Medal, and the Army Service Ribbon.
The Associated Press, citing a family spokesman, reported that Moriarty grew up in Houston and earned a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Texas. The spokesman also said the soldier's family is heartbroken, and they are planning a memorial service in a week or two.
>Died November 4, 2016 Serving During Operation Inherent Resolve
There were conflicting reports after the Friday shooting, as officials first thought one or two service members were killed. The number later was revised to three.
While it’s not immediately clear what prompted the shooting, Jordanian military officials have said the shots were fired as a car carrying the Americans tried to enter the al-Jafr base near the southern Jordanian town of Mann. A Jordanian officer also was wounded.
The U.S. soldiers were in Jordan on a training mission, officials said. The U.S. military typically maintains about 2,000 U.S. forces on the ground in Jordan to support training with the Jordanian military and operations against the Islamic State in neighboring Iraq and Syria.
The deaths of the three soldiers marked a deadly week for the Army’s elite Special Forces, who have been relied upon heavily in Iraq, Afghanistan and other hot spots around the world. They also were the latest in a series of casualties reported from the U.S. Central Command region.
On Oct. 19 in Afghanistan, Sgt. Douglas Riney, 26, died in a shooting attack at Camp Morehead, an ammunition supply point outside Kabul. Also killed was Michael Sauro, an Army civilian.
The shooter was reportedly wearing an Afghan army uniform.
On Oct. 20, Navy Chief Petty Officer Jason Finan, 34, was killed in Iraq during operations near Mosul.
Finan was with Kurdish forces when his unit came under attack. Finan was moving to a better position when his vehicle struck an improvised explosive device, U.S. officials said.
And on Nov. 3 in Afghanistan, Capt. Andrew Byers and Sgt. 1st Class Ryan Gloyer, Special Forces soldiers from 10th Special Forces Group, were killed in a firefight with the Taliban in Kunduz province.
Military Times senior reporter Andrew Tilghman and the Associated Press contributed to this report.
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>Staff Sgt. Matthew Lewellen, Staff Sgt. Kevin McEnroe and Staff Sgt. James Moriarty
Moriarty's father.
James R. Moriarty (born September 10, 1946) is an American lawyer noted for mass torts against major corporations,including Tenet Healthcare Corporation, Shell Chemicals, DuPont, and Prudential Securities. His legal cases have been described in the books Serpent on the Rock by Kurt Eichenwald, Money-Driven Medicine: The Real Reason Health Care Costs So Much by Maggie Mahar, and Coronary by Stephen Klaidman. Moriarty is a former Marine and Gold Star father.
Early life
Moriarty was born on September 10, 1946, in Schenectady, New York, shortly after his twin brother Robert James Moriarty, who was born the previous day. He dropped out of high school in January 1965 to enlist in the United States Marine Corps.
Career
Moriarty founded Moriarty & Associates in 1986.
Moriarty and partners have obtained billions of dollars in awards for clients over a career spanning four decades. Moriarty is an expert in mass torts, a type of case in which many similar cases are grouped together but each case is weighed on its own merits. (This is not to be confused with class actions, which also involve many claimants but typically result in smaller awards for the plaintiffs.)
Moriarty's work has targeted makers of faulty medical devices, peddlers of shoddy investments, and medical providers that exploit Medicaid patients.
Moriarty served as special assistant to the former mayor of Houston,[20][21] Bill White, throughout White's term in office. Among other duties, Moriarty assisted the city's attorneys on a pro bono basis, on one occasion helping the city enforce billboard laws designed to avoid "visual blight" in the city of Houston.[22]White and Moriarty met while raising money for Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign.
>Moriarty's father.
Vietnam combat Marine
Moriarty completed Marine Corps Recruit Depot (MCRD) San Diego with Platoon 212 in May 1965, received meritorious promotion to private first class. He then attended multiple "A" schools at Naval Air Technical Training Command Memphis, receiving meritorious promotion to lance corporal.
He was offered his choice of assignment and served three tours in the Vietnam War. He was awarded two single-mission Air Medals for heroic achievement while serving as a door gunner in a Marine Observation Squadron 2 helicopter gunship squadron located at Marble Mountain in South Vietnam.[1][2] He was released from active duty as a sergeant in January 1969.
Advocate for veterans
Operation Tailwind
On June 7, 1998, CNN broadcast a story titled “Valley of Death” that purported to offer new, alarming information about a Vietnam War mission called Operation Tailwind. According to the story, U.S. Special Forces advanced into Laos to kill American defectors, dropping sarin nerve gas and killing women and children. A print version of the story appeared in Time magazine, CNN's news partner in the program, called NewsStand.
The story was proven to be false, and on July 2, 1998, the network retracted it in full, issuing a 54-page retraction.[3][4]
An investigation into how the report was allowed to be broadcast concluded that reporters relied too much on information that supported their thesis, failing to properly weigh contrary information.[5]
The CNN broadcast was not fair. Information that was inconsistent with the underlying conclusions reached by CNN was ignored or minimized. … Statements of sources that were vague, ambiguous or qualified were relied upon as if they were clear, focused and unambiguous.
Moriarty represented three of the veterans who had been defamed, underwriting a documentary[6] to tell the story of Tailwind from their point of view and shine a light on the irresponsible actions of the CNN journalists.
One veteran recounted turning on the TV with interest after CNN promoted a new program called NewsStand, then realizing the story was about him and his fellow soldiers.
“The more I watched it, the worse it got. There was nothing in that entire broadcast that was true,” Army veteran Keith Plancich said.
As the veterans explain, they were sent into Laos to cause a diversion and draw the North Vietnamese away from a group of CIA mercenaries.
The team “escaped with the largest cache of enemy intelligence documents ever recovered in the war, and only three of their 156 soldiers killed,” according to a summary of the documentary.[6]
>Moriarty
>Mort - death
>Ia - condition or state of being
>Ty - multiply by ten
Total Clown name
James Moriarty
He is a man of good birth and excellent education, endowed by nature with a phenomenal mathematical faculty. At the age of 21, he wrote A Treatise on the Binomial Theorem, which has had a European vogue. On the strength of it he won the mathematical chair at one of our smaller universities, and had, to all appearances, a most brilliant career before him. But the man had hereditary tendencies of the most diabolical kind. A criminal strain ran in his blood, which, instead of being modified, was increased and rendered infinitely more dangerous by his extraordinary mental powers. Dark rumors gathered around him in the University town, and eventually he was compelled to resign his chair and come down to London. He is the Napoleon of Crime, Watson, the organizer of half that is evil and nearly all that is undetected in this great city… „
~ Sherlock Holmes about Professor Moriarty in "The Final Problem".
>Disturbing details emerge in deaths of 3 American soldiers in Jordan
>>18776030, >>18776062 Moriarty - Total Clown name
Families of Green Berets slain in Jordan call for extraditions, apology
By Harm Venhuizen
Jul 1, 2020
The parents of three Army Special Forces soldiers killed in 2016 are calling for the extradition of their sons’ killer and a convicted Jordanian terroristtied to the deaths of two U.S. citizens.
U.S. Army Green Berets on a training mission in Jordan were returning to King Faisal Air Base on Nov. 4, 2016, when a guard at the gate opened fire on their convoy, killing three soldiers before being subdued.
The guard, Jordanian airman Ma’arik al-Tawayha, was sentenced by a military court in 2017 to life in prison; however, in Jordan “life” sentences typically last 20 years.
The families of Sgt. First Class Matthew Lewellen, Staff Sgt. Kevin McEnroe, and Staff Sgt. James F. Moriarty sent letters to 84 members of Congress on Monday asking for al-Tawayha to be brought to the U.S. to face trial. The letters also urged members of Congress to demand an apology from King Abdullah’s government and the extradition of convicted terrorist Ahlam al-Tamimi before granting any more aid to Jordan.
The U.S. provided Jordan with $1.5 billion in 2019.
Tamimi was convicted as an accomplice to the 2001 bombing of a Sbarro pizzeria in Jerusalem. The attack resulted in the deaths of 15 people, including two Americans, and injured 130 others.
She was released to Jordan in a 2011 prisoner exchange between Israel and Hamas. The families’ letters state that Tamimi has “lived freely in Jordan since her release.”
U.S. requests for her extradition have been denied by Jordan, which claims its 1995 extradition treaty with the U.S. is invalid because it was never ratified by Jordanian parliament.
“I hope this time that our representatives in Congress will be on the proactive and right side of history and not waiting for another mass killing to take action,” Cindy Lewellen, mother of Matthew Lewellen, told Military Times.
Initial claims from the Jordanian government about the three soldiers who were killed stated that they were not complying with entry procedures and that the Americans had fired first, negligently discharging a firearm in one of their vehicles. At trial, al-Tawayha testified that he was startled by a loud noise and believed the base was under attack.
Army investigators stated in their 82-page report that there was no evidence that the U.S. soldiers were not complying with entry procedures or that they fired first.
“The facts seem to indicate that there wasn’t anyone else there who thought they were under attack until he (al-Tawayha) started shooting,” Brian McEnroe, father of Kevin McEnroe, told Military Times.
McEnroe believes that al-Tawayha was following orders.
“I think that the king or someone in the king’s chain of command, ordered the killing of some Americans, and I don’t think that we have the truth right now and I don’t know that we’ll ever get it,” McEnroe said.
James R. Moriarty, father of James F. Moriarty, was hopeful that extradition might bring about closure.
“Part of why I’m demanding his extradition is because I want him interviewed again about what happened. And maybe this time we’ll get the full story,” he told Military Times.
Surveillance video released in 2017 shows the Green Berets, all of whom were at least intermediately proficient in Arabic, waving their arms after the unprompted attack began and trying to communicate to al-Tawayha that they were friendly forces.
Al-Tawayha continued to fire at U.S. troops for nearly six minutes.
“You can see how aggressive he is. You can see my son and the survivor attempting to communicate with him in Arabic, ‘we’re friends, we’re Americans,’” Moriarty told Military Times.
The parents of the other soldiers agreed;the killing was targeted.
“It’s obvious that he set out to murder our Special Forces,” said Lewellen.
In addition to petitioning Congress for action, the families of the fallen soldiers filed a lawsuit in 2018 against Jordan’s royal family in a search for answers and monetary damages. The lawyer handling the ongoing case was not immediately available for comment.
>The parents of the other soldiers agreed;the killing was targeted.
> https://archive.ph/OHEeI
Training missions at the military base in Jordan had become so routine that the American Special Forces soldiers there wore baseball caps instead of helmets. Most of them had been in a war zone, and Jordan felt far from one.
But as their convoy crept toward an entry gate on a sweltering Friday in November, gunshots erupted from a guard post, inciting a shootout that killed three Americans, drove a wedge between crucial allies and ended with a 39-year-old Jordanian soldier sentenced to life in prison for murder.
“We kept yelling in English and Arabic, saying we were friends. And he kept shooting,” said the lone American soldier to survive the attack, speaking publicly for the first time about that day. “Eventually, we realized it wasn’t an accident.”
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Video Captures Ambush of U.S. Soldiers
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The episode has sent a chill through the normally warm relations between the United States and Jordan, one of its closest Arab allies, and spurred protests in Jordan by members of the gunman’s influential tribe, who believe he is being punished to placate a powerful ally.
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It has also baffled investigators, who have been unable to determine a motive.
Jordanian officials at first portrayed the episode as an accident and blamed the Americans, saying that they had broken the protocol for approaching the base, and later saying that they had accidentally fired a weapon, leading the Jordanian guard to believe he was under attack.
But surveillance video released by the Jordanian military on Monday and an interview with the 30-year-old American staff sergeant who survived the shootout shows a far more troubling scene: a five-minute clash during which the Americans fired back, crouched behind barriers and waved their hands desperately to stop the shooting, before the Jordanian charged with an assault rifle to try to finish them off.
The gunman, First Sgt. Ma’arik al-Tawayha, a member of the Jordanian Air Force, was wounded in the fight and sentenced last week by a Jordanian military court to life in prison for the killings of Staff Sgt. Matthew C. Lewellen, 27, of Kirksville, Mo.; Staff Sgt. Kevin J. McEnroe, 30, of Tucson; and Staff Sgt. James F. Moriarty, 27, of Kerrville, Tex.
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First Sgt. Ma’arik al-Tawayha was led out of court in Amman on July 17 after his trial for the killing of three American military trainers last year. Credit Khalil Mazraawi/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
The soldier who survived reviewed the video with a reporter from The New York Times on Monday evening, helping to piece together what took place that day.
“We were just terrified and confused,” he said. “We didn’t know what was happening, or why, or how many guys were going to come after us.”
The video first shows a stark desert road leading to a gate to the King Faisal Air Base in the southern Jordanian town of Al Jafr, where the American soldiers were training Syrian rebels as part of a covert program run by the Central Intelligence Agency.
Four trucks are returning from morning mortar training and slowly approach the gate as a Jordanian soldier removes two roadblocks.
U.S. Soldier Who Survived Fatal Jordan Shootout Tells His Story
By DAVE PHILIPPS and BEN HUBBARD JULY 25, 2017
>U.S. Soldier Who Survived Fatal Jordan Shootout Tells His Story
Video shows that the American convoy stopped at the gate before the shooting began.
Jordanian Armed Forces
Standing just off camera was Sergeant Tawayha, a familiar presence at the base, who had probably seen Special Forces pass through the gate twice a day, according to the staff sergeant.
Once the first two trucks are off camera, puffs of smoke rise, indicating gunshots. For reasons still in dispute, Sergeant Tawayha suddenly began to fire, peppering the second truck with at least 30 shots at close range, killing Sergeant Lewellen and Sergeant McEnroe.
“Glass was flying, I saw the guys slumped over,” the staff sergeant said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the news media. Training had taught the team to accelerate through ambushes to escape the kill zone. “I waited a few seconds, hoping the guys in front could push through, but nothing happened.”
In the video, the Jordanian soldier who removed the roadblocks runs for cover, and the staff sergeant fires three shots toward the gate with a 9-mm pistol before he and the soldier in the truck behind him, Sergeant Moriarty, seek cover.
A number of trucks pass, apparently unaware of the ambush. The video shows a pickup drive by carrying two camels that crane their necks at the crack of gunfire.
The video has no sound, but the staff sergeant said the gunfire that followed was punctuated with screaming from both sides, with the gunman telling them to put their hands up, and the Americans yelling back that they are friends. To try to appease the gunman, they pop their heads up, raising their arms without their guns to indicate a cease-fire, then duck quickly as explosions of dust show bullets hitting the barricade inches from their heads.
“I put my gun down, raised my hands a little and he took a shot at me,” the staff sergeant said. “That is when we decided this probably was not an accident.”
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American Special Forces soldiers waved their hands in surrender before they were shot and killed.
Jordanian Armed Forces
The soldiers were trapped. Their sole radio was in the rear truck, so they could not call for backup, the staff sergeant said. They kept yelling in Arabic and English that they were friends and offered to go away if the guard stopped shooting, but clouds of dust continued to explode as shots hit the barricades.
Pinned down, the staff sergeant and Sergeant Moriarty hurriedly discussed their options.
“We were trying to wave and we’re getting shot at,” the staff sergeant said. “I gave up with trying to figure stuff out and told him we should just try to kill this guy.”
Both had two full magazines left — a total of 60 rounds — but they needed a better defensive position. After nearly four minutes, they sprinted behind their trucks to other concrete barriers farther from the gate.
“We thought it would buy us some time,” the staff sergeant said. “Maybe help would come.”
The video shows Sergeant Tawayha run toward the trucks with his rifle leveled. He hides behind the first truck, firing at the Americans, then walks to the second, slowly trying to flank them.
Finally, Sergeant Tawayha rushes the Americans with a burst of fire. Both Americans fire their pistols at point blank range, but Sergeant Tawayha shoots Sergeant Moriarty, who slumps to his knees, then collapses.
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The shooter can be seen running toward two of the soldiers and firing at them.
Jordanian Armed Forces
The staff sergeant dodges around a barrier and shoots Sergeant Tawayha, who falls to the ground behind the barricade.
The staff sergeant said he grabbed the bleeding Jordanian’s rifle and threw it away before backing off into the desert with his arms raised.
In the confusion, as Jordanian and American forces edged in to determine what had happened, the staff sergeant’s partner bled to death behind the barrier where he was shot. As the staff sergeant described the gunfight, a stammer in his voice revealed his deep sense of regret that he had been unable to help.
“I didn’t go back to Jimmy,” he said. “I didn’t know the attack was over. I didn’t think I could help him while still in a firefight.”
The video was not shown at Mr. Tawayha’s trial, where he testified that he had thought he was acting within the rules of engagement. But after his conviction spurred protests by his tribe, the Jordanian military and the F.B.I. released the video in hopes it would defuse the unrest, said James R. Moriarty, a Houston lawyer and the father of the slain Sergeant Moriarty.
The release has done little to calm Sergeant Tawayha’s tribe, the Howeitat, which is known in Jordan for its role in the Arab uprising that paved the way for the foundation of the modern kingdom. Many still believe that Sergeant Tawayha was doing his duty and is being punished to please the United States.
“It is not right, but our government is looking for cash and they’ll do anything to get it,” his brother, Abdul-Rahman Abu Tayeh, said in an interview.
Sergeant Tawayha was in the military for more than a decade and often worked with Americans, his brother said, so what he did made no sense.
“We lived for years and years with the Americans, so why would we want a problem with them now?” said Lafi Abu Tayeh, another relative of Sergeant Tawayha’s who helps coordinate the protests. “But since the ruling, they are not welcome here.”
The staff sergeant, who attended parts of the gunman’s trial, said he, too, was perplexed by the man’s motives. Sergeant Tawayha remained consistent in his insistence that he had thought the base was under attack, the staff sergeant said.
“But there is no rational person who chases two attackers from the safety of the guard shack without backup,” he said. “It just still doesn’t make sense.”
A version of this article appears in print on July 26, 2017, on Page A6 of the New York edition with the headline: U.S. Soldier Who Survived Fatal Attack by a Jordanian Tells His Story
>>18775215 lb
>RE: 1stTSC
>Which ME countries donated to the CF pre_2016 election?
>Which countries did 1stTSC deliver military equipment to pre_2016 election?
>Those who are able to answer these questions will be shocked. Just a coincidence? Are you really surprised anymore?
>>18775744 lb
>Read very carefully. I can't say too much. Connect the dots anons
>>18775756 lb
>“ The FBI is leading the investigation but so far has not been able to question the shooter because he is in a medically-induced coma.”
>Disturbing details emerge in deaths of 3 American soldiers in Jordan
>JAMES MORIARTY OBITUARY
>The three soldiers were all Green Berets working for the CIA in Jordan, training Syrian rebels.
>Staff Sgt. Matthew Lewellen, Staff Sgt. Kevin McEnroe and Staff Sgt. James Moriarty
>Moriarty - Total Clown name
>The parents of the other soldiers agreed;the killing was targeted.
>>18776220, >>18776223, >>18776225
>U.S. Soldier Who Survived Fatal Jordan Shootout Tells His Story
>Ma’arik al-Tawayha
>Jordan
From 1977
CIA Paid Millions to Jordan's King Hussein
By Bob Woodward and
Washington Post Staff WriterLEAD: The Central Intelligence Agency for 20 years has made secret annual payments totaling millions of d
February 18, 1977
The Central Intelligence Agency for 20 years has made secret annual payments totaling millions of dollars to King Hussein of Jordan, The Washington Post has learned.
The payoffs were reported last year to President Ford as an impropriety by the Intelligence Oversight Board, a three-member panel set up by Ford to curb CIA abuses.
President Ford took no steps to stop the covert payments. Last hear Hussein was paid approximately $750,000 by the CIA.
President Carter learned of the payoffs earlier this week after this newspaper began its investigation. He ordered that the payments be stopped.
The secret arrangement with Hussein had not been disclosed to Carter by the CIA or by any member of the previous administration, including President Ford, former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger, or former CIA Director George Bush.
Carter was "distressed" that he had not been told, according to well-placed sources, and sees the solution to CIA abuses as quick confirmation of his nominee as CIA director, Navy Adm. Stansfield Turner.
In addition, the Senate Intelligence Committee created last year to oversee the CIA apparently was not given the full story by the Ford administration of the secret payments to Hussein.
One of the most closely held and sensitive of all CIA covert activities, the payments to Hussein were made under the codeword project name of "No Beef." They were usually delivered in cash to the king by the CIA station chief in Amman.
>CIA Paid Millions to Jordan's King Hussein
As justification for the direct cash payments to Hussein, the CIA claimed that Hussein was allowing U.S. intelligence agencies to operate freely in his strategically placed Middle Eastern country.
Hussein himself provided intelligence to the CIA and forwarded money from the payments to other government officials who provided intelligence or cooperated with the CIA.
Nonetheless, some CIA officials considered the payments nothing more than "bribes" and reported the matter to President Ford's oversight panel.
Hussein, according to sources, considers the payments simply another form of U.S. assistance.
Within the CIA, the "No Beef" project has been considered one of its most successful operations, giving the United States great leverage and unusual access to the leader of a sovereign state.
The payments were first made to Hussein in 1957 during the Eisenhower administration. The initial payments apparently ran in the millions of dollars but they were sharply curtailed to the $750,000 level last year.
Hussein was only 21 when he first became a beneficiary of CIA funds. It was a time when Jordan was virtually a ward of the United States and Hussein had little money to support his lifestyle, which earned him the reputation as a "playboy prince."
Hussein has a well-publicized taste for sports cars and airplanes. As once previously reported, the CIA has provided Hussein with female companions. The agency also provided bodyguards for Hussein's children when they were abroad in school.
Some money from the most recent CIA payments to Hussein have been used to pay for bodyguards for his children.
Over the years, Hussein has maintained friendly relations with the United States and his country has been the recipient of substantial military and economic aid - about $200 million in loans and grants last year alone.
The "No Beef" payments to Hussein were made outside the conventional channel of military and economic assistance.
Well-placed sources said that nonetheless the United States has not been able to direct Hussein's overall policy decisions. He has not been a "puppet," the sources said, but he has rarely drifted outside the U.S. orbit.
In late 1974 the CIA became the focus of several government investigations into alleged abuses, and in February, 1976, President Ford directed a reorganization of the intelligence community.
Part of a Feb. 18, 1976, executive order set up the Intelligence Oversight Board which, among other things, was to "report in a timely manner to the President any activities that raise serious questions about propriety."
The office of the general counsel in the CIA was assigned by the exectuve order to report any alleged abuses to the oversight panel.
The general counsel soon made such a report on the Hussein payments, and called them possibly improper.
The panel appointed by Ford included former Under Secretary of State Robert D. Murphy, former Secretary of the Army Stephen Ailes, and business book publisher Leo Cherne.
By last summer the oversight panel had made a formal report to President Ford on the payments, concluding that they were improper. Ford read the report but ordered no action taken.
Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance is scheduled to meet with King Hussein today during Vance's six-nation trip to the Middle East.
Jordan is widely considered a moderating influence on the Palestinians and a key to any lasting Middle East peace settlement.
The country is considered a vital part of any realistic option for getting the Palestinians represented at a future Geneva peace conference.
Geographically, Jordan is in a central position, sharing borders with Israel, Syria, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia. Israel's entire eastern border touches Jordan.
Hussein's decisions have often been highly compatible with U.S. and Israeli interests. For example, he expelled the Palestine Liberation Organization from Jordan in 1970, though this also helped Hussein's own domestic situation.
In 1973, Hussein refused to join in the Arab war against Israel.
It is often considered a miracle that Hussein has held power for 24 years through the turbulence of the Middle East wars, frequent internal strife and at least a dozen assassination attempts.
Last week his wife, Queen Alia, 26, died in a helicopter crash while returning from a hospital mercy mission.
https://archive.ph/fbUOK
>CIA Paid Millions to Jordan's King Hussein
>By Bob Woodward and
hmmm. Wonder if this other contractor killing is related?
The Jordanian Arms Theft Story
The NYT has a blockbuster story reporting that Jordanian officers have been stealing weapons "shipped into Jordan" by CIA, and selling them on the black market. Some of these weapons were used to kill two American contractors at a training facility in November.
Marcy Wheeler
Jun 27, 2016
EmptyWheel
The NYT has a blockbuster story reporting that Jordanian officers have been stealing weapons "shipped into Jordan" by CIA, and selling them on the black market. Some of these weapons were used to kill two American contractors at a training facility in November.
Weapons shipped into Jordan by the Central Intelligence Agency and Saudi Arabia intended for Syrian rebels have been systematically stolen by Jordanian intelligence operatives and sold to arms merchants on the black market, according to American and Jordanian officials.
Some of the stolen weapons were used in a shooting in November that killed two Americans and three others at a police training facility in Amman, F.B.I. officials believe after months of investigating the attack, according to people familiar with the investigation.
The existence of the weapons theft, which ended only months ago after complaints by the American and Saudi governments, is being reported for the first time after a joint investigation by The New York Times and Al Jazeera.
I'm still trying to figure out what to make of this story, so for the moment, I just want to unpack it.
First, consider the players. The story is sourced to US and Jordanian "officials," (a term which can sometimes mean contractors or Members of Congress). The CIA and FBI both refused to comment for the story; the State Department and Jordan's press people both gave fluff statements.
The story is a joint project – between Qatar's media outlet, Al-Jazeera (here's their link to the story), and the "official press" of the US, the NYT. So Americans, Jordanians, and Qataris were involved in this story.
But no Saudis, in spite of the fact that the story reports that Saudis apparently complained some months ago.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/06/27/jordanian-arms-theft-story
>Trump leaves for Scotland on 5/5
>King of England Coronation is 5/6
>Coincidence? I think not, perhaps.
Remember when Potus posted his William Wallace War face on QFreedomdelta?