{"id":51801,"date":"2015-09-27T01:00:33","date_gmt":"2015-09-27T01:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/la_times_pentagon_says_u-s-trained_rebels_gave_weapons_to_militants_in_syr\/"},"modified":"2015-09-27T01:00:33","modified_gmt":"2015-09-27T01:00:33","slug":"la_times_pentagon_says_u-s-trained_rebels_gave_weapons_to_militants_in_syr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51801","title":{"rendered":"(LA Times) Pentagon says U.S.-trained rebels gave weapons to militants in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After two days of denials, the Pentagon disclosed late Friday that a U.S.-trained and equipped proxy force in Syria had turned over some of its supplied weapons to an Al Qaeda affiliate.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. officials said rebels told them a commander of a group of trained fighters gave six pickup trucks with mounted machine guns and a portion of their ammunition, or about 25% of their issued equipment, to Al Nusra Front in exchange for safe passage within their operating area in northern Syria.<\/p>\n<p>The information &#8220;is very concerning and a violation of Syria train and equip program guidelines,\u201d\u009d said Col. Patrick Ryder, spokesman of U.S. Central Command, which oversees the military effort in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/world\/middleeast\/la-fg-syria-rebels-pentagon-20150925-story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After two days of denials, the Pentagon disclosed late Friday that a U.S.-trained and equipped proxy force in Syria had turned over some of its supplied weapons to an Al Qaeda affiliate. U.S. officials said rebels told them a commander<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51801\">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":[39,40,50,143,149,168,144,203,151,556,584,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-defense-national-security-military","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-foreign-relations","category-middle-east","category-politics-in-general","category-syria","category-the-u-s-government","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51801","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=51801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}