{"id":12486,"date":"2014-10-21T09:00:36","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T16:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=12486"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:11:48","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:11:48","slug":"us-now-faces-threat-of-us-made-weapons-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/us-now-faces-threat-of-us-made-weapons-in-iraq","title":{"rendered":"US Now Faces Threat of US-Made Weapons in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"source times\">Douglas Birch, <a style=\"color: #4f4f50;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.publicintegrity.org\/2014\/08\/21\/15325\/us-now-faces-threat-us-made-weapons-iraq\">Center for Public Integrity<\/a> \/ News Investigation \u2014 Nation of Change<\/div>\n<div class=\"source times\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"source times\">\n<p>Never mind that the vehicle is a boxy, lumbering, second-hand set of wheels with a top speed of just 60 mph. To some of the fighters of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, the U.S. M1117, aka the Guardian Armored Security Vehicle, has become their favorite ride.<\/p>\n<p>Or so says <a href=\"http:\/\/press.ihs.com\/leadership\/defense-risk-security-experts\/jeremy-binnie\">Jeremy Binnie<\/a>, editor of Jane\u2019s Terrorism and Security Monitor, who has monitored propaganda sites for reports of jihadis toting, towing or tooling around in some of the millions of dollars\u2019 worth of U.S.- and other foreign-built military equipment that ISIS captured after it swept into northern Iraq in early June.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationofchange.org\/us-now-faces-threat-us-made-weapons-iraq-1408798754\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Douglas Birch, Center for Public Integrity \/ News Investigation \u2014 Nation of Change Never mind that the vehicle is a boxy, lumbering, second-hand set of wheels with a top speed of just 60 mph. To some of the fighters of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, the U.S. M1117, aka the Guardian Armored Security [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46811,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12486\/revisions\/46811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}