says troops sent to Jordan-Syria border
US defence secretary Leon Panetta has confirmed that US troops have been been sent to the Jordan-Syria border as part of contingency plans to stop the violence in Syria spreading south.
Speaking at a Nato conference of defence ministers in Brussels, AP quotes him saying:
We have a group of our forces there working to help build a headquarters there and to insure that we make the relationship between the United States and Jordan a strong one so that we can deal with all the possible consequences of what's happening in Syria.
Pentagon press secretary George Little, traveling with Panetta, said the US and Jordan agreed that "increased co-operation and more detailed planning are necessary in order to respond to the severe consequences of the Assad regime's brutality".
In a statement he said:
We have been planning for various contingencies, both unilaterally and with our regional partners. There are various scenarios in which the Assad regime's reprehensible actions could affect our partners in the region. For this reason and many others, we are always working on our contingency planning, for which we consult with our friends.
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