{"id":61722,"date":"2015-09-05T07:54:25","date_gmt":"2015-09-05T11:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=61722"},"modified":"2015-09-04T17:12:04","modified_gmt":"2015-09-04T21:12:04","slug":"mfo-troops-in-sinai-wounded-by-ied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61722","title":{"rendered":"MFO troops in Sinai wounded by IED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2015\/09\/04\/us-force-in-egypt-amid-isis-affiliated-attacks\/?intcmp=hpbt1\">Fox News<\/a>, four US troops and two others were wounded by two IEDs last week as part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/mfo.org\/\">Multinational Force and Observer<\/a> mission in the Sinai. The Multinational Force and Observer mission is charged with keeping Egypt and Israel separated according to the Camp David accords of 1978. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>No group has taken responsibility for the attack, but the Islamic State has a well-known and active faction in the region, posing a complex security challenge for the peacekeeping force that has been there for decades. While much attention has been paid to the deployment of American troops back to Iraq to help fight ISIS, Americans make up the biggest component of the little-known international mission to Sinai &#8212; in place since after the signing of the 1979 Israel-Egypt peace treaty. The roughly 1,700-strong force includes 650 American soldiers. <\/p>\n<p>But with an ISIS offshoot flexing its muscle there, analysts warn they are hardly equipped to defend themselves against major attacks. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You guys probably know more about the MFO than me, but as far as I know, the mission has been left largely untouched by world events until now. Egypt was scared of Israel and Israel was glad Egypt was scared. But, ya know those ISIS guys love every chance they get to kill American troops. I guess that means that they&#8217;re going to have to dig into those overseas contingency operation funds one again to beef up security for the MFO guys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Fox News, four US troops and two others were wounded by two IEDs last &hellip; <a title=\"MFO troops in Sinai wounded by IED\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61722\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MFO troops in Sinai wounded by IED<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61722","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\/61722","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=61722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}