{"id":56301,"date":"2015-11-27T06:30:07","date_gmt":"2015-11-27T12:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=56301"},"modified":"2015-11-26T11:02:39","modified_gmt":"2015-11-26T17:02:39","slug":"today-in-amman-jordan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=56301","title":{"rendered":"Today In Amman, Jordan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(<em>SCENE: \u00a0Major Thomas ASHTON and Sergeant Major Iain MACTAGGART, members of the British 22nd SAS Regiment &#8211; Britain&#8217;s premiere Special Forces unit &#8211; are standing by a helicopter pad. \u00a0Both are suited up for a mission that nobody will confirm is a hostage rescue mission deep into ISIS territory; guns, ammunition, grenades, radios, and survival gear<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>ASHTON: Should be a bit of a dustup, eh, MacTaggart?<\/p>\n<p>MACTAGGART: \u00a0Aye. \u00a0Not the first bloody time, Major.<\/p>\n<p>ASHTON: True. \u00a0 All right, Sergeant-Major. \u00a0Let&#8217;s check the men&#8217;s kit. \u00a0This is going to be a nasty one.<\/p>\n<p>(<em>An orderly &#8211; Royal Air Force communications specialist Aircraftman Sheila O&#8217;RIORDAN &#8211; jogs up to ASHTON with a piece of paper. \u00a0She stands at attention and salutes the Major<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>ASHTON (<em>taking the paper<\/em>): \u00a0Yes?<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;RIORDAN: \u00a0Flash message from Ministry of Defense, sir.<\/p>\n<p>ASHTON: \u00a0Thank you. \u00a0Dismissed.<\/p>\n<p>(<em>O&#8217;RIORDAN salutes. \u00a0ASHTON returns the salute. \u00a0O&#8217;RIORDAN jogs back to the radio tent<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>MACTAGGART: \u00a0So w`hat&#8217;s MOD say, Major?<\/p>\n<p>ASHTON: \u00a0President Obama <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthrevolt.org\/news\/wut-obama-says-climate-conference-will-be-powerful-rebuke-terrorism#.VlWxerYl8sY.twitter\">has declared a climate conference<\/a>. \u00a0ISIS has surrendered.<\/p>\n<p>MACTAGGART: \u00a0ISIS couldn&#8217;t face the onlaught of\u00a0Powerpoint, eh?<\/p>\n<p>ASHTON: \u00a0Sounds like the mission&#8217;s off.<\/p>\n<p>MACTAGGART: \u00a0Peace has broken out?<\/p>\n<p>ASHTON: \u00a0Yes, Sergeant-Major.<\/p>\n<p>(<em>Both men stand for a beat &#8211; and then erupt in laughter<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>MACTAGGART: \u00a0I&#8217;ll tell the helos to spool up.<\/p>\n<p>ASHTON: \u00a0Right. \u00a0Wheels up in ten.<\/p>\n<p>(<em>And SCENE<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(SCENE: \u00a0Major Thomas ASHTON and Sergeant Major Iain MACTAGGART, members of the British 22nd SAS Regiment &#8211; Britain&#8217;s premiere Special Forces unit &#8211; are standing by a helicopter pad. \u00a0Both are suited up for a mission that nobody will confirm is a hostage rescue mission deep into ISIS territory; guns, ammunition, grenades, radios, and survival [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,9],"tags":[236],"class_list":["post-56301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-president-obama","category-war-on-terror","tag-dramatization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56301"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56314,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56301\/revisions\/56314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}