US and ISRAELI JETS SHOT DOWN IRANIAN DRONES IN JORDANIAN AIR SPACE, JORDANIAN JETS DID NOT FIRE A SHOT
REPORTS OF JORDANIAN AIR FORCE DOWNING DRONES OVER AMMAN ARE NOT TRUE
Mudar Adnan Zahran / Secretary General of the Jordanian Opposition Coalition
■ Our Israeli and Western military sources confirmed to us this morning, that American jets downed Iranian drones over Jordan’s capital, Amman and Zarqa, Jordan’s second largest city last night. Israeli jets shot down dozens of Iranian drones en route to Jordan at the borders with Iraq. The Israeli Force broke into the Iraqi air space to confront those. At the same time, US owned and operated ground-to-air defense capabilities were used last night.
■ The claims Jordanian jets had shot down an Israeli drone en route to Israel were triggered by a report generated by Reuters chief reporter in Jordan Suleiman Al-Khalidi. A Jordanian himself with dozens of his family members residing in Amman. Needless to say, Al Khalidi faces the Hashemite regime’s ruthless grip on any reports generated in Jordan. Regardless, Al Khalidi’s original report quotes “two regional security sources” as his references. While the term “regional” is very vague by itself, one has to be curious about why the Jordanian Air Force itself has not yet published any reports confirming the alleged incident.
■ Historically, the Hashemite regime of Jordan has an acute habit of publicly glorifying little achievements as epic victories. Were Jordanian jets involved, how come the Hashemites are not celebrating it this time? All they have done so far is a mere statement by Jordan's prime minister, a man known to be a symbolic facade with very little powers. This situation is similar in many ways to this example, in 2014, a least known Western researcher, who is a resident of Jordan, tweeted that Jordan’s king himself was piloting an F16 fighter jet to attack the Islamic State terror group in Syria. The king of Jordan has never been trained to fly an F16 and has never flown one. Nonetheless, the untruthful tweet took a life of its own and was shared even by Western celebrities. The imagination-rich tweetmaker apologized a month after his tweet. Nonetheless, his bogus story remains in circulation as of this day.
