# King of Jordan to personally bomb ISIS positions **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 5, 2015, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/king-of-jordan-to-personally-bomb-isis-positions/711876 "2015-02-05T10:09:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/king-of-jordan-to-personally-bomb-isis-positions/711876/1 "2015-02-05T10:09:16Z")
[Link.](http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2015/02/king-of-jordan-to-bomb-isis-in-syria-personally-3103164.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter) Seems he is flying bombing missions himself. Apparently he served in the British Army, [which I didn’t know](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdullah_II_of_Jordan#Early_life): > [@](#): > > Abdullah began his schooling at the Islamic Educational College in Amman. He then attended St Edmund’s School, Hindhead, in England, before continuing his education in the United States at Eaglebrook School and Deerfield Academy in Deerfield, Massachusetts. In 1980 he joined the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, was commissioned into the British Army as a Second Lieutenant, and served for a year as a troop commander in the 13th/18th Royal Hussars.[1] In 1982, Abdullah was admitted to Pembroke College, Oxford, where he completed a one-year Special Studies course in Middle Eastern Affairs. In 1987, he attended the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.[4] In 1993, he assumed command of Jordan’s Special Forces and became a Major General in May 1998. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/king-of-jordan-to-personally-bomb-isis-positions/711876/2 "2015-02-05T11:00:47Z")
Maybe he can pull from his experience as an [officer of the United Federation of Planets](http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Abdullah_bin_al-Hussein). Although does “conducting” mean flying? ---
**Author:** ![Steken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@Steken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steken)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/king-of-jordan-to-personally-bomb-isis-positions/711876/3 "2015-02-05T11:32:41Z")
I can’t possibly be the only one who immediately thought “[INDEPENDENCE DAY!](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-S-oCLGGz3GY/TsUrYLcNsWI/AAAAAAAAD3A/2XQsWsZR-Eg/s1600/pullman.jpg)” ---
**Author:** ![mascaroni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dc4da7/32.png) [@mascaroni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mascaroni)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/king-of-jordan-to-personally-bomb-isis-positions/711876/4 "2015-02-05T12:52:06Z")
Reading the titles of the top stories in the first link doesn’t convince me that it is a credible source. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/king-of-jordan-to-personally-bomb-isis-positions/711876/5 "2015-02-05T12:52:38Z")
If he scores some hits, will the headlines read “King Takes Pawns”? ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Feldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lord_feldon/32/341_2.png) [@Lord\_Feldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Feldon)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/king-of-jordan-to-personally-bomb-isis-positions/711876/6 "2015-02-05T12:59:35Z")
> [@mascaroni](#): > > Reading the titles of the top stories in the first link doesn’t convince me that it is a credible source. Come on. They must be a big deal. They just got a [big scoop on chemtrails.](http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2015/02/chemtrail-pilot-blows-the-cover-of-operation-indigo-skyfold-3103200.html) ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/king-of-jordan-to-personally-bomb-isis-positions/711876/7 "2015-02-05T16:19:59Z")
Some sources today are saying that the Jordanian government has denied that the king would personally fly any missions. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/king-of-jordan-to-personally-bomb-isis-positions/711876/8 "2015-02-05T16:43:48Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > If he scores some hits, will the headlines read “King Takes Pawns”? check ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/king-of-jordan-to-personally-bomb-isis-positions/711876/9 "2015-02-05T16:56:08Z")
Defense Minister: What would the King like for his birthday? Queen: How about soem Air Jordans? Defense Minister: I’ll get working on it. ---
**Author:** ![Gray\_Ghost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c0e974/32.png) [@Gray\_Ghost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gray_Ghost)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/king-of-jordan-to-personally-bomb-isis-positions/711876/10 "2015-02-05T17:49:00Z")
I thought his flight experience was in AH-1s, not in jet fighter-bombers? (Shrug) Doubt Jordan’s going to be using helicopter gunships unless they do a ground invasion. Or if they have to do any CSAR again. It wouldn’t surprise me if he’d picked up some flight time in jets though. I mean, who’s going to say, “No,” to the heir apparent? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/king-of-jordan-to-personally-bomb-isis-positions/711876/11 "2015-02-05T18:14:26Z")
> [@Steken](#): > > I can’t possibly be the only one who immediately thought “[INDEPENDENCE DAY!](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-S-oCLGGz3GY/TsUrYLcNsWI/AAAAAAAAD3A/2XQsWsZR-Eg/s1600/pullman.jpg)” My first thought was “Mission Accomplished.” ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/king-of-jordan-to-personally-bomb-isis-positions/711876/12 "2015-02-05T20:23:30Z")
[Snopes’d.](http://www.snopes.com/info/news/jordanking.asp) ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/king-of-jordan-to-personally-bomb-isis-positions/711876/13 "2015-02-05T20:50:10Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > Maybe he can pull from his experience as an [officer of the United Federation of Planets](http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Abdullah_bin_al-Hussein) That is so cool. ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/king-of-jordan-to-personally-bomb-isis-positions/711876/14 "2015-02-05T21:42:04Z")
Good. Now maybe the Queen will get off her lazy bum and paratroop in with James Bond and a flight of corgis.