Airman: Secret Drone Ops Run From US Base In Jordan Where 3 Soldiers Killed, 40+ Wounded

Published February 12, 2024

The United States government would have you believe the military base in Jordan where three soldiers were killed in a drone strike is a mere “logistics support base.” In truth, the facility also serves as a base for US drones used to conduct reconnaissance and target identification in Syria and Iraq, according to a report from The Intercept‘s Ken Klippenstein.

The base in Jordan, which is called Tower 22, is positioned just six miles from the Syrian border, and close to the Al-Tanf base where US servicemembers are based inside Syria. After a Jan. 28 drone attack on Tower 22 killed three soldiers and wounded dozens more, US Central Command described the facility as a “logistics support base” housing some 350 Army and Air Force personnel.

However, an Air Force airman who was recently stationed at Tower 22 tells The Intercept there’s much more to the base than managing supplies:

To call Tower 22 a logistics support base is complete bullshit. The main purpose of Tower 22 is to operate drones to spy on insurgents in Iraq and Syria, for targeting purposes. The main objective I witnessed was taking out targets.

According to the airman, intelligence collected in Tower 22’s drone operations is used by USAF units at other bases, including Jordan’s Muwaffaq Salti Air Base, to carry out airstrikes in the region.

A satellite image of Tower 22 in northeast Jordan, where three US soldiers were killed and dozens more wounded in Jan 28 drone strike (Planet Labs PBC via AP)

CENTCOM says the base is used to give “support to the coalition for the lasting defeat of ISIS.” The claimed ISIS mission is central to the legal justification for the continued US military presence in Syria, which relies on an expansive interpretation of Congress’s 2001 authorization to use military force (AUMF) against terrorists and others who facilitated the 9/11 attacks.

However, that’s all a pretense: The principal purpose of US operations in Iraq and Syria is to limit Iranian influence in the region, to include countering Iranian-allied militant groups, while also weakening the Syrian government by depriving it of access to its own oil fields.

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SOURCE: www.zerohedge.com

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