{"id":2613,"date":"2021-03-07T17:31:50","date_gmt":"2021-03-07T17:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=2613"},"modified":"2021-03-07T17:31:50","modified_gmt":"2021-03-07T17:31:50","slug":"us-will-do-whats-necessary-to-defend-itself-after-iraq-rocket-attack-says-pentagon-chiefsouth-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=2613","title":{"rendered":"US will do \u2018what\u2019s necessary\u2019 to defend itself after Iraq rocket attack, says Pentagon chiefSouth China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: South China Morning PostThe United States will \u201cdo what\u2019s necessary\u201d to defend itself, Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin said on Sunday, days after rockets hit an Iraqi base hosting coalition troops, further escalating US-Iran tensions on Iraqi soil.US defence secretary Austin told ABC News that the US is still \u201cdeveloping intelligence\u201d on who was behind the attack, which saw around 10 rockets slam into the sprawling Ain al-Assad military base in Iraq\u2019s western desert on March 3.No US service members were injured, but an\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3124467\/us-will-do-whats-necessary-defend-itself-after-iraq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: South China Morning PostThe United States will \u201cdo what\u2019s necessary\u201d to defend itself, Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin said on Sunday, days after rockets hit an Iraqi base hosting coalition&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}