{"id":669661,"date":"2010-02-19T11:38:09","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T16:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/?p=12019"},"modified":"2010-02-19T11:38:09","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T16:38:09","slug":"%e2%80%9cnew-dawn%e2%80%9d-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/669661","title":{"rendered":"\u201cNew Dawn\u201d in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the request of Gen. Raymond Odierno (top general in Iraq), Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has approved changing the name of the mission in Iraq from &#8220;Operation Iraqi Freedom&#8221; to &#8220;Operation New Dawn&#8221;, a senior defense official tells Fox.<\/p>\n<p>According to a memo signed by Secretary Gates this new name better fits with the Security Agreement the US has with Iraq.\u00a0 &#8220;Aligning the name change with the change of mission sends a strong signal that Operation Iraqi Freedom has ended and our forces are operating under a new mission&#8221;, Gates wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The name change takes effect on Sep 1 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the request of Gen. Raymond Odierno (top general in Iraq), Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has approved changing the name of the mission in Iraq from &#8220;Operation Iraqi Freedom&#8221; to &#8220;Operation New Dawn&#8221;, a senior defense official tells Fox. According to a memo signed by Secretary Gates this new name better fits with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3647,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-669661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2OcZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}