{"id":61515,"date":"2015-08-23T08:02:52","date_gmt":"2015-08-23T12:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=61515"},"modified":"2015-08-21T16:11:39","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T20:11:39","slug":"us-isis-used-chem-weapons-against-kurds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61515","title":{"rendered":"US:  ISIS Used Chem Weapons Against Kurds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US authorities have confirmed that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/story\/military\/2015\/08\/21\/isis-used-mustard-gas-makhmour-against-kurds\/32116637\/\">ISIS used chemical weapons in an 11 August 2015 attack against Kurdish forces<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After the attack, numerous Kurdish personnel became\u00a0ill. \u00a0Kurdish forces obtained shell fragments from shells used by ISIS during the attack and provided them to the US for analysis.<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary analysis indicates that the shell fragments tested positive for agent HD &#8211; sulfur mustard.<\/p>\n<p>It is not known where ISIS obtained these agents. \u00a0Both Syrian and Iraqi stocks are a possibility, since ISIS has occupied large portions of each nation and both are reputed to have stockpiled chemical weapons in the past.<\/p>\n<p>But remember: \u00a0don&#8217;t worry, be happy. \u00a0Iraqi and Syrian WMDs don&#8217;t pose any threat &#8211; in fact, the former don&#8217;t even exist . \u00a0Nothing to see here; move along.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>(I trust the fact that the final paragraph\u00a0above is sarcasm is quite obvious.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US authorities have confirmed that ISIS used chemical weapons in an 11 August 2015 attack against &hellip; <a title=\"US:  ISIS Used Chem Weapons Against Kurds\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61515\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US:  ISIS Used Chem Weapons Against Kurds<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,84,223],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-policy","category-military-issues","category-syria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61515","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\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}