{"id":68191,"date":"2016-09-28T11:58:42","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T15:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=68191"},"modified":"2016-09-28T11:58:42","modified_gmt":"2016-09-28T15:58:42","slug":"pentagon-no-mustard-gas-attack-on-us-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68191","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon; no mustard gas attack on US troops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68085\">Last week<\/a>, we talked about a supposed chemical attack on US troops at Qayyara air base in Iraq. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/world\/2016\/09\/27\/homemade-rocket-iraq-base-negative-mustard-agent\/91165500\/\">USAToday<\/a> reports that the Pentagon has backed off of that claim now;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A rocket fired last week at an Iraqi base where American troops are present did not contain a chemical agent despite earlier suspicions, the U.S. military reported Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Extensive laboratory tests concluded that the munition did not contain mustard agent, Air Force Col. John Dorrian, a U.S. military spokesman, said.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told Congress last week the military assessed the munition contained sulfur mustard agent. His assessment was based on the information available at that time, the Pentagon said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, that&#8217;s good news. But the bad news;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Islamic State militants will likely try to use chemical weapons as Iraqi forces launch an offensive to retake Mosul, Navy Capt. Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesman, said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re dead set on it. They would love to be able to use chemical weapons against us, against the Iraqis, as they move forward,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, we talked about a supposed chemical attack on US troops at Qayyara air base &hellip; <a title=\"Pentagon; no mustard gas attack on US troops\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68191\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pentagon; no mustard gas attack on US troops<\/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-68191","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\/68191","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=68191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68191\/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=68191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}