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| Amman Denies CIA Training Syria Rebels in Jordan |
| 2013-06-23 |
| [An Nahar] Jordan on Saturday denied an American newspaper report saying that the CIA and U.S. special operations forces were training rebels from neighboring Syria on its territory. "There is no training in our country whatsoever of Syrian opposition forces," Prime Minister Abdullah Nsur told a group of journalists including one from Agence La Belle France Presse. "The only Syrians we are dealing with in our country are refugees. There isn't any training" of Syrian forces of Evil in Jordan, he insisted. On Friday the Los Angeles Times reported that the Central Intelligence Agency and U.S. special forces have been training Syrian rebels at a new U.S. base in the desert in southwest Jordan since November, |
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