{"id":157296,"date":"2015-06-08T13:20:12","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T13:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=157296"},"modified":"2015-06-08T13:20:12","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T13:20:12","slug":"us-increased-chemical-arms-sales-repressive-regimes-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/us-increased-chemical-arms-sales-repressive-regimes-report\/","title":{"rendered":"US increased chemical arms sales to repressive regimes: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"item-text\">\n<p><strong>The United States significantly increased exports of chemical and biological weapons to authoritarian African and Middle Eastern governments during popular uprisings that swept the region in early 2011, according to a report.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>During the roughly two years of Arab Spring protests, the US State Department, under Hillary Clinton, approved $66 million worth of so-called Category 14 exports&#8211;defined as &#8220;toxicological agents, including chemical agents, biological agents and associated equipment&#8221;&#8211;to nine Middle Eastern and African governments, whose affiliated groups were stocking Clinton family interests with cash, <em>The International Business Times<\/em> reports.<\/p>\n<p>That represented a 50 percent increase in such export approvals to the same authoritarian governments over the two years prior to the Arab Spring, according to the report, which is based on a review of State Department documents.<\/p>\n<p>Most notably, the documents reveal, the Clinton\u2019s State Department cleared Egypt to continue purchasing arms Washington classified as &#8220;toxicological agents,\u201d at a time when Hosni Mubarak\u2019s forces were widely using tear gas, a toxicological agent, as part of their bloody crackdown against protesters demanding his ouster.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2015\/06\/07\/414695\/Clinton-chemical-weapons-Egypt-Arab-Spring--\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States significantly increased exports of chemical and biological weapons to authoritarian African and Middle Eastern governments during popular uprisings that swept the region in early 2011, according to a report. During the roughly two years of Arab Spring protests, the US State Department, under Hillary Clinton, approved $66 million worth of so-called Category [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":157297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,1616],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-157296","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-usa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}