{"id":57760,"date":"2015-01-20T09:50:46","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T14:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=57760"},"modified":"2015-01-20T09:50:46","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T14:50:46","slug":"canadians-in-fire-fight-with-isis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57760","title":{"rendered":"Canadians in fire fight with ISIS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/middle-east\/canadian-soldiers-fire-on-militants-in-west-s-1st-apparent-ground-fight-1.324697\">The Associated Press<\/a> reports that Canadian soldiers assisting the Iraqis in beating back the Islamic State came under fire from those ISIS forces yesterday while in a planning session with Kurdish and Iraqi commanders near the front;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Brigadier General Michael Rouleau, commander of special operations command] said the Canadians used sniper fire and &#8220;neutralized&#8221; the machine gun and mortar without taking any casualties.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My troops had completed a planning session with senior Iraqi leaders several kilometers behind the front lines,&#8221; Rouleau said. &#8220;When they moved forward to confirm the planning at the front lines in order to visualize what they had discussed over a map, they came under immediate and effective mortar and machine gun fire.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The general said that while Canadian soldiers are not participating in active combat, they have the right to fire back if fired upon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Funny how the enemy has a say in whether you have &#8220;boots on the ground&#8221; or not, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press reports that Canadian soldiers assisting the Iraqis in beating back the Islamic State &hellip; <a title=\"Canadians in fire fight with ISIS\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57760\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Canadians in fire fight with ISIS<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57760","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\/57760","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=57760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}