Evidence

Repeated attempts to search for corroboration of this claim were blocked by a tool-usage limit in this session, so no fresh web results could be retrieved. Relying on well-established public reporting from January 2024 onward: the only fatal drone attack on U.S. forces in the Jordan area that killed three American service members occurred on January 28, 2024, at a small outpost known as 'Tower 22' near the Jordan-Syria border — not in July, and not at Muwaffaq Salti Air Base (a separate Jordanian air base used by U.S./coalition forces). That attack was publicly attributed by U.S. officials to Iran-backed Iraqi militia groups operating under the umbrella 'Islamic Resistance in Iraq,' with Iran accused of arming and supporting these proxies rather than directly planning and executing the strike itself. No credible, widely reported claim connecting Chinese-supplied high-resolution satellite imagery to the planning of that or any Jordan-based attack, nor any Wall Street Journal story matching this specific description, could be located in prior general knowledge or in the search attempts made.