{"id":379116,"date":"2018-09-30T07:00:12","date_gmt":"2018-09-30T06:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-kuwait-claims-us-patriot-missiles-pullout-is-routine\/"},"modified":"2018-09-30T07:00:12","modified_gmt":"2018-09-30T06:00:12","slug":"presstv-kuwait-claims-us-patriot-missiles-pullout-is-routine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-kuwait-claims-us-patriot-missiles-pullout-is-routine\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Kuwait claims US Patriot missiles pullout is &#8216;routine&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Kuwait\u2019s top military official has said that the recent US defense department decision to withdraw two anti-air Patriot missile systems from the Persian Gulf kingdom was a \u201croutine procedure\u201d amid Pentagon\u2019s refusal to discuss the move.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kuwaiti army&#8217;s General Chief of staff Lt. Gen. Mohammad Al-Khuder was cited in a Saturday report by the Saudi-based <em>Arab News<\/em> English-language daily as saying that the pullout of the missile battery by the US military reflected \u201can interior routine procedure\u201d in coordination with the Kuwaiti army.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Kuwait&#8217;s Patriot missile system, independently, protects and covers all its geographical borders,&#8221; he added in a statement quoted in the report.<\/p>\n<p>Patriot missile systems are designed to intercept ballistic and cruise missiles and other airborne threats such as war planes.<\/p>\n<p>US media <a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.com\/Detail\/2018\/09\/26\/575308\/US-removing-some-missile-systems-Middle-East\">reported <\/a>last week that the US military was pulling some of its anti-aircraft and missile batteries out of the Middle East,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/09\/30\/575606\/US-Patriot-missile-system-Kuwait-Lt-Gen-Mohammad-AlKhuder\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kuwait\u2019s top military official has said that the recent US defense department decision to withdraw two anti-air Patriot missile systems from the Persian Gulf kingdom was a \u201croutine procedure\u201d amid Pentagon\u2019s refusal to discuss the move. Kuwaiti army&#8217;s General Chief of staff Lt. Gen. Mohammad Al-Khuder was cited in a Saturday report by the Saudi-based [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-379116","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379116","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=379116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}