{"id":56351,"date":"2014-11-10T09:29:58","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T14:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=56351"},"modified":"2014-11-10T09:29:58","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T14:29:58","slug":"nuclear-scientists-killed-on-morning-commute-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56351","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear scientists killed on morning commute in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/middle-east\/attack-on-bus-with-syrian-nuke-scientists-kills-4-1.313375\">Associated Press<\/a> reports that four nuclear scientists were killed in an ambush on their bus this morning and the Syrian government is blaming al Qaeda;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A pro-government Syrian newspaper and a monitoring group say that militants opened fire on a bus carrying nuclear scientists and engineers near Damascus, killing at least four men.<\/p>\n<p>The Watan newspaper said on Monday that the men were heading to work at the Scientific Research Center near the Syrian capital when they were attacked Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper says the four victims were Syrian nationals, and suggested al-Qaida-linked militants were responsible for the attack.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Other government reports say that one of the victims is Iranian and that there were five killed. I wouldn&#8217;t rule out Israel, though, they attacked another nuclear research facility near Damascus last year.<\/p>\n<p>So should we be cheering for al Qaeda because they hindered the Syrian nuclear research? The Iranians are fighting ISIS, al Qaeda is fighting ISIS, the Syrian government is fighting al Qaeda and ISIS, Hezbollah is fighting Israel and ISIS and our troops are going into the middle of a 360 degree ambush.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Andy11M for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press reports that four nuclear scientists were killed in an ambush on their bus &hellip; <a title=\"Nuclear scientists killed on morning commute in Syria\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56351\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nuclear scientists killed on morning commute in Syria<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56351","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=56351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/54917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}