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About the u.s. military and training presence in jordan and the entire region. reporter: 10 years to the day. on those training perhaps, what does it mean? what are we doing there, what is the net effect of our involvement so far in this training? >> the u.s. has several training programs to train jordanian and regional security partners and coalition partners. there are a lot of trainers on the ground, u.s. military, pentagon, obviously they are there, they are even ganged. there has been 100 i...

Where they turn their guns on their partners. this does undermine the strategy where the u.s. is meant to be training and mentoring afghan security forces. already this year 51 u.s. and international troops have been killed by afghan security partners. u.s. commanders are fond of saying it was a shoulder to shoulder operation fighting the taliban together. it is more of an arms link operation. theres so much distrust between the afghan security forces and the community it is undermining the effo...