{"id":42366,"date":"2020-03-13T11:21:26","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T16:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=42366"},"modified":"2020-03-13T11:24:02","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T16:24:02","slug":"42366","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=42366","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-ca\/news\/world\/us-conducts-airstrikes-in-iraq-in-retaliation-for-attack-that-killed-2-americans\/ar-BB117bPz?li=AAggNb9\">US conducts airstrikes in Iraq in retaliation for attack that killed 2 Americans<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Never underestimate the ability of the U.S. military to pick the time, place and target\u00a0of their own choosing when they go for &#8216;payback&#8217;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The U.S. military\u00a0conducted airstrikes\u00a0in Iraq on Thursday in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/americans-service-members-killed-rocket-attack-base-iraq\/story?id=69541726\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-id=\"79\" data-m=\"{&quot;i&quot;:79,&quot;p&quot;:72,&quot;n&quot;:&quot;partnerLink&quot;,&quot;y&quot;:24,&quot;o&quot;:7}\">retaliation for a recent<\/a>\u00a0rocket attack that killed two American service members and one British service member and wounded 14 others, according to two U.S. officials, one of whom\u00a0characterized the strikes\u00a0as defensive in nature.<\/p>\n<p>It was\u00a0unclear what targets\u00a0were being struck by U.S. military aircraft, but earlier in the day, senior Pentagon officials had blamed Iranian-backed Shia militia groups for Wednesday&#8217;s attack on Camp Taji in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yesterday&#8217;s attack by Iranian-backed Shia militia groups consisted of multiple indirect fires that originated form a stationary platform and was clearly targeting coalition and partner forces on Camp Taji,&#8221; Defense Secretary Mark Esper told reporters on Thursday. &#8220;But let me be clear, the United States will not tolerate attacks against our people our interests or our allies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Esper continued, &#8220;All options are on the table as we work with our partners to bring the perpetrators to justice and maintain deterrence.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US conducts airstrikes in Iraq in retaliation for attack that killed 2 Americans Never underestimate the ability of the U.S. military to pick the time, place and target\u00a0of their own choosing when they go for &#8216;payback&#8217;. The U.S. military\u00a0conducted airstrikes\u00a0in Iraq on Thursday in\u00a0retaliation for a recent\u00a0rocket attack that killed two American service members and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=42366\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-moslems-jihadis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42366"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42369,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42366\/revisions\/42369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}