{"id":649,"date":"2013-06-06T19:46:43","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T19:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxviews.com\/?p=1340"},"modified":"2013-06-06T19:46:43","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T19:46:43","slug":"large-us-marine-force-lands-in-aqaba-to-deploy-on-jordanian-syrian-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/?p=649","title":{"rendered":"Large US Marine force lands in Aqaba to deploy on Jordanian-Syrian border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.debka.com\/article\/23019\/Large-US-Marine-force-lands-in-Aqaba-to-deploy-on-Jordanian-Syrian-border\">http:\/\/www.debka.com\/article\/23019\/Large-US-Marine-force-lands-in-Aqaba-to-deploy-on-Jordanian-Syrian-border<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As expected, the events are the subject of a total media blackout &#8230; <\/p>\n<p>Quote: <em>Washington and Amman have imposed a blackout on their arrival. The Pentagon has only let it be known that the annual joint US-Jordanian \u201cEager Lion 2013\u201d military exercise is due to begin later in June and last two months, with the participation of US F-16 fighter jets and Patriot missile defense systems. The US Central Command spokesman Lt. Col. T.G. Taylor in a statement to the US media said only: <font color=\"red\">\u201cIn order to enhance the defensive posture and capacity of Jordan, some of these assets may remain beyond the exercise at the request of the government of Jordan.\u201d<\/font><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.debka.com\/article\/23019\/Large-US-Marine-force-lands-in-Aqaba-to-deploy-on-Jordanian-Syrian-border As expected, the events are the subject of a total media blackout &#8230; Quote: Washington and Amman have imposed a blackout on their arrival. The Pentagon has only let it be known that the annual joint US-Jordanian \u201cEager Lion 2013\u201d military exercise is due to begin later in June and last two months, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}