{"id":4971,"date":"2021-04-17T16:09:27","date_gmt":"2021-04-17T16:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4971"},"modified":"2021-04-17T16:09:27","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T16:09:27","slug":"how-the-pentagon-got-inside-isis-chemical-weapons-operation-and-ended-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4971","title":{"rendered":"How the Pentagon Got Inside ISIS\u2019 Chemical Weapons Operation\u2014and Ended It"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> &#8220;\u201cWe began to recognize that ISIS was pulling in not just fighters but people with unique skills: technical skills, scientific skills, financial skills,\u201d said General Joseph Votel, the Pentagon\u2019s special-operations chief at the time and a regular participant in the discussions. \u201cThat gave us pause. We all witnessed the horrific things they were doing. You had to make the presumption that if they got their hands on a chemical weapon, they would use it.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2021\/02\/27\/red-line-book-excerpt-chemical-weapons-syria-471784\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2021\/02\/27\/red-line-book-excerpt-chemical-weapons-syria-471784<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;\u201cWe began to recognize that ISIS was pulling in not just fighters but people with unique skills: technical skills, scientific skills, financial skills,\u201d said General Joseph Votel, the Pentagon\u2019s special-operations chief at the time and a regular participant in the discussions. \u201cThat gave us pause. We all witnessed the horrific things they were doing. You had to make the presumption that if they got their hands on a chemical weapon, they would use it.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1257,1256,335],"class_list":["post-4971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-chemical-weapons","tag-isis","tag-pentagon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4972,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4971\/revisions\/4972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}