{"id":6597,"date":"2014-09-26T02:56:35","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T02:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=6597"},"modified":"2014-09-26T02:56:35","modified_gmt":"2014-09-26T02:56:35","slug":"isiss-worst-nightmare-answers-the-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=6597","title":{"rendered":"ISIS&#039;s &#039;worst nightmare&#039; answers the call"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>This story absolutely, positively knocks me out.<\/p>\n<p>Major Mariam Al Mansouri has flown a combat mission striking Islamic State targets in Syria.<\/p>\n<p>Al Mansouri is a major in the United Arab Emirates air force.<\/p>\n<p>The major is a woman!<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2014\/09\/25\/world\/meast\/uae-female-fighter-pilot\/index.html?hpt=hp_c2<\/p>\n<p>Al Mansouri might be, in the words of CNN.com, the Islamic State&#8217;s &#8220;worst nightmare.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Islamic State &#8212; aka ISIS or ISIL &#8212; is at this moment the world&#8217;s No. 1 terrorist organization. It is a Sunni extremist cult that beheads prisoners and brutalizes women, denying them any semblance of respect.<\/p>\n<p>These terrorists are animals. President Obama has declared his intention to &#8220;degrade and destroy&#8221; the terrorist organization.<\/p>\n<p>Accordingly, he and Secretary of State John Kerry have enlisted several nations to join in a coalition to fight ISIL\/ISIS. The United Arab Emirates is one of them. Among the service personnel ordered to fly combat sorties against the Islamic State is the aforementioned Major Al Mansouri.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She is (a) fully qualified, highly trained, combat ready pilot, and she led the mission,&#8221; Yousef Al Otaiba told MSNBC&#8217;s &#8220;Morning Joe,&#8221; according to CNN.com.<\/p>\n<p>This is fantastic. A female UAE air force officer has led a combat mission to destroy military targets manned and operated by sworn enemies of women all around the world.<\/p>\n<p>The delicious irony is way beyond measure.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story absolutely, positively knocks me out. Major Mariam Al Mansouri has flown a combat mission striking Islamic State targets in Syria. Al Mansouri is a major in the United Arab Emirates air force. The major is a woman! http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2014\/09\/25\/world\/meast\/uae-female-fighter-pilot\/index.html?hpt=hp_c2 Al Mansouri might be, in the words of CNN.com, the Islamic State&#8217;s &#8220;worst nightmare.&#8221; The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=6597\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ISIS&#039;s &#039;worst nightmare&#039; answers the call<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[5,12,13,14],"tags":[2347,2362,4489,4993],"class_list":["post-6597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","category-military-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-isil","tag-islamic-state","tag-syria","tag-uae"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}