{"id":5714,"date":"2015-02-14T08:52:31","date_gmt":"2015-02-14T13:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5714"},"modified":"2015-02-14T08:52:31","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T13:52:31","slug":"isis-captures-city-where-marines-are-training-iraqi-troops-after-obama-submits-war-authorization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5714","title":{"rendered":"ISIS CAPTURES CITY WHERE MARINES ARE TRAINING IRAQI TROOPS AFTER OBAMA SUBMITS WAR AUTHORIZATION"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/isis-captures-city-where-marines-are-training-iraqi-troops-after-obama-submits-war-authorization\/\" target=\"_blank\">ISIS CAPTURES CITY WHERE MARINES ARE TRAINING IRAQI TROOPS AFTER OBAMA SUBMITS WAR AUTHORIZATION<\/a><\/h3>\n<h5 class=\"entry-subtitle\">Corporate poll says majority of Americans favor continued and expanded war<\/h5>\n<h5>On Thursday ISIS fighters attacked and seized a large section of the Iraqi city of al-Baghdadi, located about 50 miles northwest of Ramadi in Anbar province.<\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They also advanced on the Ain al-Asad air base near the town where 320 U.S. Marines are training members of the Iraqi 7th Division.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon reported \u201cheavy fighting\u201d in al-Baghdadi and said there were \u201creports of ineffective indirect fire in the vicinity of the base,\u201d according to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2015\/02\/13\/us-mideast-crisis-iraq-anbar-idUSKBN0LG23120150213\">Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It also said Anbar is under \u201csevere threat\u201d by Islamic State fighters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThursday\u2019s fighting also demonstrates the continued ability of the Islamic State to remain on the attack despite coalition airstrikes. Still, U.S. officials maintain that the militants remain largely on the defensive,\u201d the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/islamic-state-advances-near-iraq-base-where-us-advisers-are-stationed\/2015\/02\/12\/b543acf8-b2eb-11e4-bf39-5560f3918d4b_story.html?postshare=41423785988232\">Washington Post<\/a>\u00a0reported.<\/p>\n<p>Unconfirmed reports state ISIS has captured the air base and the Marines stationed there:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISIS CAPTURES CITY WHERE MARINES ARE TRAINING IRAQI TROOPS AFTER OBAMA SUBMITS WAR AUTHORIZATION Corporate poll says majority of Americans favor continued and expanded war On Thursday ISIS fighters attacked and seized a large section of the Iraqi city of al-Baghdadi, located about 50 miles northwest of Ramadi in Anbar province. &nbsp; They also advanced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[5],"tags":[442,1239,446,447,3554,584,620,3555,3556,3497],"class_list":["post-5714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-iraq","tag-is","tag-isis","tag-islamic-state","tag-marines","tag-obama","tag-pentagon","tag-us-marines","tag-war-authorization-act","tag-war-powers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5715,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5714\/revisions\/5715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}