Starvin Larry

Why are US military forces working for the CIA, instead of the military? How can US soldiers, even special forces soldiers, be taking orders from an intelligence agency? Is the CIA now conducting military operations? This article raises these, and other equally disturbing questions. From Thomas Gibbon-Neff and Joby Warrick at washingtonpost.com:

The three Army Special Forces soldiers killed at a Jordanian military base this month were working for a CIA program to train moderate Syrian fighters when they were shot at a checkpoint under still-unclear circumstances, U.S. officials said.

The Nov. 4 slayings of the three soldiers is believed to be the deadliest single incident involving a CIA team since December 2009, when seven officers and contractors were killed in a suicide bombing in Khost, Afghanistan.

The Fort Campbell, Ky.-based soldiers — all members of the 5th Special Forces Group — were killed by a Jordanian soldier at an…