{"id":3383,"date":"2013-10-07T04:44:39","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T08:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=3383"},"modified":"2014-06-02T15:18:50","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T19:18:50","slug":"experts-begin-destroying-syrias-chemical-weapons-arsenal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2013\/10\/experts-begin-destroying-syrias-chemical-weapons-arsenal\/","title":{"rendered":"Experts begin destroying Syrias chemical weapons arsenal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/syria_admin_2007.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3338\" alt=\"syria_admin_2007\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/syria_admin_2007-300x298.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/syria_admin_2007-300x298.jpg 300w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/syria_admin_2007-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/syria_admin_2007-1024x1020.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/syria_admin_2007-400x398.jpg 400w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/syria_admin_2007.jpg 1131w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of international experts began the process of destroying Syria&#8217;s chemical weapons on Sunday, according to the United Nations.<\/p>\n<p>The group consists of international inspectors from\u00a0the Netherlands-based watchdog\u00a0Organization for the Prohibition\u00a0of Chemical Weapons along with a U.N. team.\u00a0Under their supervision, &#8220;Syrian personnel used\u00a0cutting torches and angle grinders to\u00a0destroy or disable a range of items,&#8221; said\u00a0Eri Kaneko,\u00a0associate spokeswoman for U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moons\u00a0office.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This included missile warheads, aerial bombs and mixing and filling\u00a0equipment. The process will continue in the coming days,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/worldnews.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2013\/10\/06\/20843265-experts-begin-destroying-syrias-chemical-weapons-arsenal?lite\" target=\"_blank\">Experts begin destroying Syrias chemical weapons arsenal &#8211; World News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of international experts began the process of destroying Syria&#8217;s chemical weapons on Sunday, according to the United Nations. The group consists of international inspectors from\u00a0the Netherlands-based watchdog\u00a0Organization for the Prohibition\u00a0of Chemical Weapons along with a U.N. team.\u00a0Under their supervision, &#8220;Syrian personnel used\u00a0cutting torches and angle grinders to\u00a0destroy or disable a range of items,&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,9,18],"tags":[1704,1705,1706],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3383"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3383"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3466,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3383\/revisions\/3466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}