{"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:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?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 Kurdish forces. 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. Preliminary analysis indicates that the shell fragments tested positive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"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"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-g0b","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}