{"id":60751,"date":"2015-07-06T15:09:50","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T19:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=60751"},"modified":"2015-07-06T15:10:21","modified_gmt":"2015-07-06T19:10:21","slug":"iraqi-air-force-accidentally-kills-8-with-errant-bomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=60751","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi air force accidentally kills 8 with errant bomb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Iraqi plane had a hung-up bomb that failed to fall on it&#8217;s target, but, proving that Murphy is alive and well in Iraq, it fell off of it&#8217;s mount over a Baghdad neighborhood killing at least eight people, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/iraqi-jet-accidentally-bombs-residential-neighborhood-of-baghdad\/2015\/07\/06\/9477d11e-5bc7-497a-9eed-12ddf2731692_story.html\">Washington Post<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Iraq has just a handful of functioning fighter jets, which it acquired second-hand from Russia and Iran in its attempts to cobble together an air force in the wake of the Islamic State\u2019s advances last year. Monday\u2019s misfire is not the first mistake involving the aging Sukhoi fighter jets, which accidentally bombed government forces in the city of Tikrit earlier this year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty certain that the US wouldn&#8217;t have allowed the jet over a populated area with a bomb hanging off of it &#8211; if the pilot was even aware of the malfunction.<\/p>\n<p>The Iraqi Air Force accidentally killed almost as many people as the US air strikes killed when they intentionally targeted ISIS targets in their capitol. If that&#8217;s not a metaphor for the US strategy against ISIS, I don&#8217;t know metaphors.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Parachutecutie for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Iraqi plane had a hung-up bomb that failed to fall on it&#8217;s target, but, proving &hellip; <a title=\"Iraqi air force accidentally kills 8 with errant bomb\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=60751\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Iraqi air force accidentally kills 8 with errant bomb<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60751","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\/60751","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=60751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}