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| Two Americans have been killed and two others reportedly injured after a Jordanian opened fire at military training camp on the outskirts of Amman. | |
| The two Americans were killed when a Jordanian police officer went on a shooting spree at the King Abdullah training facility in Muaqar on the eastern outskirts of Jordan’s capital. | |
| The shooting occurred on the 10th anniversary of a series of three coordinated attacks targeting three hotels in Amman undertaken by al-Qaida in Iraq. | |
| The facility is a regional centre used by the US to train security forces including Palestinians and Iraqis. | |
| According to initial reports the two dead Americanswere providing security at the facility. No further information was available and neither the US embassy or Jordanian government was yet available for comment. | |
| Early details of the shooting remained sketchy with sources in Amman saying that either two or three Americans had been injured in addition to the two dead and with some identifying them as private military contractors. | |
| According to an official quoted by the Jordan Times the shooter was shot and killed and did not commit suicide. | |
| “It is yet not known whether the shooting was because of a dispute between the policeman and the contractors,” a government source told the pro-government daily. |