{"id":9168,"date":"2015-11-01T08:00:45","date_gmt":"2015-11-01T14:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=9168"},"modified":"2015-11-01T08:00:45","modified_gmt":"2015-11-01T14:00:45","slug":"colombian-mercs-in-yemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2015\/11\/01\/colombian-mercs-in-yemen\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombian Mercs in Yemen?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/11\/mercs.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9169\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/11\/mercs.jpg?w=620\" alt=\"mercs\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>The Arabian Dream: Colombians Taking Part in Yemen War<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some\u00a0800<em> former<\/em> Colombian military troops will enter the city port of Aden in Yemen, switching the jungle terrain of their home country for the deserts of Arabia.<span id=\"more-158617\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The former Colombian army troops will join a coalition of allied international troops\u00a0fighting Shiite rebels. They will operate under the service of the UAE Armed Forces, donning a Saudi uniform\u00a0in defense of the Yemeni government.<\/p>\n<p>Domestic hostilities with Shiite rebels that have grown since their initiation in 2004, with the\u00a0UN reporting the situation to be \u201con the brink of a civil war.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After over 50 years of civil war in their home country the Colombian military officials have a vast experience in this area, though a change in scenery will\u00a0provide a variety of different challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Troops have received training in urban combat in the desert, location control,\u00a0police raids and security bases and caravans. They will reportedly also face advanced intelligence as they fight to regain the capital city under control of Shia rebels.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a completely\u00a0different war to that which we live\u00a0in Colombia in every way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Read the Remainder at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/colombiareports.com\/the-arabian-dream-colombians-taking-part-in-yemen-war\/\">Columbia Reports<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Arabian Dream: Colombians Taking Part in Yemen War Some\u00a0800 former Colombian military troops will enter the city port of Aden in Yemen, switching the jungle terrain of their home country for the deserts of Arabia. The former Colombian army troops will join a coalition of allied international troops\u00a0fighting Shiite rebels. They will operate under&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2280,2717,1583,1704,74,2004,272,1898],"tags":[2753,2754,2755,2756],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}