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BLOWBACK! U.S. Trained ISIS At Secret Jordan Base; Part Of Covert Strategy Targeting Bashar Assad | Fortuna's Corner

"JERUSALEM – Members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIS, were trained in 2012 by U.S. instructors working at a secret base in Jordan, according to informed Jordanian officials. 

"The officials said dozens of ISIS members were trained at the time as part of covert aid to the insurgents targeting the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Syria. The officials said the training was not meant to be used for any future campaign in Iraq."

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