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Wednesday, June 05, 2013

US to send Patriot missiles, F-16s to Jordan for drill

Patriot PAC-2The United States will send a Patriot missile battery and F-16 fighters to Jordan for a military drill and may keep the weapons there to counter the threat posed by Syria's civil war, officials said.

The Patriot missile launchers and F-16 warplanes "were approved for deployment to Jordan as part of Exercise Eager Lion," the spokesman for US Central Command, Lieutenant Colonel TG Taylor, said.

"In order to enhance the defensive posture and capacity of Jordan, some of these assets may remain beyond the exercise at the request of the government of Jordan," Taylor said in a statement.

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