{"id":23774,"date":"2011-06-07T14:31:25","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T18:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=23774"},"modified":"2011-06-07T14:31:25","modified_gmt":"2011-06-07T18:31:25","slug":"syrian-soldiers-mutiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23774","title":{"rendered":"Syrian soldiers mutiny?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ap.stripes.com\/dynamic\/stories\/M\/ML_SYRIA?SITE=DCSAS&#038;SECTION=HOME&#038;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&#038;CTIME=2011-06-07-12-33-33\">Associated Press<\/a> reports that some Syrian soldiers have joined protesters in parts of Syria and have murdered their former officers and are taking on security forces in the streets.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The details of what happened in Jisr al-Shughour remain murky, but if confirmed the mutiny would be an extraordinary crack in the regime, which sees its 40-year grip on the country eroded weekly by thousands of protesters calling for the ouster of President Bashar Assad.<\/p>\n<p>The government said 120 troops and police died after &#8220;armed groups&#8221; attacked in Jisr al-Shughour, but has not explained how the heavily armed military could suffer such an enormous loss of life. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This could signal the beginning of the end for the Assad regime if it&#8217;s true. And of course, the Syrians will be more than grateful to the US for all of the aid we&#8217;ve given them in their bloody struggle against oppression&#8230;oh, right&#8230;that&#8217;s the one we chose to stay out of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associated Press reports that some Syrian soldiers have joined protesters in parts of Syria and have &hellip; <a title=\"Syrian soldiers mutiny?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23774\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Syrian soldiers mutiny?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,83,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-breaking-news","category-foreign-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}