{"id":34509,"date":"2013-03-12T10:17:18","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T14:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=34509"},"modified":"2013-03-12T10:17:18","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T14:17:18","slug":"cia-in-iraq-fighting-al-qaeda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34509","title":{"rendered":"CIA in Iraq fighting al Qaeda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2013\/mar\/12\/cia-ratchets-covert-operations-iraq-fight-al-qaeda\/\">The Washington Times<\/a> reports today that the CIA is ratcheting up their operations in Iraq. See, I don&#8217;t understand that because I was told for years that the only reason that al Qaeda was in Iraq was because US troops were there. And now the troops are out, but al Qaeda is still there.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>U.S. intelligence indicates that this al Qaeda affiliate is giving assistance to the Syrian-based rebel group, the al-Nusra Front, that currently controls parts in northern Syria, UPI says. The U.S. State Department lists al Nusra as a foreign terror group, saying it is little more than a front for al Qaeda in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>White House officials have previously ordered the CIA to help CTS [Iraq\u2019s Counter-terrorism Service]. Now, CIA agents will be upping its role and taking over missions previously run by the U.S. military, UPI reports.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But, we don&#8217;t have troops in Syria, either, so I don&#8217;t understand how al Qaeda got involved in Syria. Does this mean that everything we were told about timeline withdrawals is wrong? Didn&#8217;t al Qaeda just cease operations when we did? It&#8217;s all so confusing because this administration &#8220;ended the war in Iraq&#8221;, they tell me. Wasn&#8217;t that one of the big things in the &#8220;plus&#8221; column during the last campaign? I remember thousands of Democrats applauding on their feet about that.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just asking questions here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Times reports today that the CIA is ratcheting up their operations in Iraq. See, &hellip; <a title=\"CIA in Iraq fighting al Qaeda\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34509\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CIA in Iraq fighting al Qaeda<\/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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34509","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=34509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}