{"id":38726,"date":"2013-06-16T01:16:06","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T01:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/csm_us_promises_military_aid_to_syrian_rebels-_now_what\/"},"modified":"2013-06-16T01:16:06","modified_gmt":"2013-06-16T01:16:06","slug":"csm_us_promises_military_aid_to_syrian_rebels-_now_what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38726","title":{"rendered":"(CSM) US promises military aid to Syrian rebels. Now what?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reports are beginning to outline the weaponry and where it will go. Weapons will likely include automatic rifles, light mortars, and rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) \u201d\u201c but not the shoulder-fired antiaircraft missiles known as MANPADS (man-portable air-defense missiles).<\/p>\n<p>The fear is that antiaircraft missiles could end up in the hands of more militant factions fighting in Syria, including Hezbollah and those with connections to Al Qaeda.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/USA\/Military\/2013\/0615\/US-promises-military-aid-to-Syrian-rebels.-Now-what?nav=87-frontpage-entryLeadStory\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reports are beginning to outline the weaponry and where it will go. Weapons will likely include automatic rifles, light mortars, and rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) \u201d\u201c but not the shoulder-fired antiaircraft missiles known as MANPADS (man-portable air-defense missiles). The fear is<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38726\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,50,209,143,144,203,151,556],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-defense-national-security-military","category-foreign-relations","category-middle-east","category-politics-in-general","category-syria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}