AMMAN A Jordanian officer shot dead two U. President Barack Obama said he was treating the attack at the King Abdullah Training Center, in which three Jordanians and one Lebanese citizen were wounded, very seriously and a full investigation was under way.

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The gunman was a police captain, a senior Jordanian official told Reuters. There was no immediate word on the attacker's background or motive.

But Jordan is a staunch U. As much as pre-emptive measures have been taken, it is impossible to eradicate all risks," said a senior Jordanian official who requested anonymity, citing political sensitivities. Embassy in Amman said two American civilian security contractors and a South African contractor were shot to death, and one slain Jordanian was a translator.

It was "premature to speculate on motive at this point" with the investigation proceeding, it said. A second Jordanian, who had been in critical condition, died later of his wounds, Jordan's government said. There were differing early reports on the number killed, with three U.

Jordanian government spokesman Mohammad Momani denied that and Jordan's official death toll stands at six. State Department's International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs Bureau training Palestinian security forces. Obama told reporters at the White House: The shooting spree took place on the 10th anniversary of al Qaeda suicide bombings that targeted three Amman luxury hotels and killed 57 people, the deadliest militant attack in Jordanian history.

Security sources said several earlier militant plots to attack the King Abdullah training center had been foiled. Momani, the government spokesman, said the attacker was shot dead by Jordanian security forces inside the training center.

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He did not commit suicide as security sources had earlier reported. The training facility was set up on the outskirts of the capital Amman after the U. Jordan hosts several hundred U. But Jordan's role in the war against Islamic State has raised disquiet among some Jordanians about instability at their borders. They fear that Amman's enhanced role in the campaign might provoke Islamist bloodshed in their country. Jordanian authorities have since tightened security around sensitive government districts, increased surveillance of radical Islamists and jailed dozens on suspicion of plotting militant attacks on Israelis, Americans and other Westerners.

King Abdullah believes fervently that ultra-hardline jihadists pose an existential threat to the kingdom. Since the civil war erupted in Syria in , hundreds of Jordanians have joined Sunni Muslim militant groups in the insurgency against President Bashar al-Assad, according to Islamists close to the subject.

But Jordan's Western-aligned monarchy is torn by conflicting interests over Syria. It has tried to steer a middle course between that of Gulf Arab allies who want Assad ousted at almost any cost and its own concerns - echoed by Washington - that a radical Islamist victory in Syria would install a worse threat. That ambivalence means that while Jordan has hosted small-scale U.

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