{"id":1415,"date":"2013-11-29T10:45:47","date_gmt":"2013-11-29T10:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/?p=1415"},"modified":"2013-11-29T10:45:47","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T10:45:47","slug":"crowe-concerned-for-safety-of-irish-troops-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/crowe-concerned-for-safety-of-irish-troops-in-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowe concerned for safety of Irish troops in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Crowe concerned for safety of Irish troops in Syria<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s Foreign Affairs spokesperson, Se\u00e1n Crowe TD, has expressed his anger and deep concern for the health and safety of Irish troops stationed in the Golan Heights after one of their regular patrol convoys came under attack from anti-government forces last night.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Crowe said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cLast night\u2019s attack on Irish troops serving in the Golan Heights graphically highlights just how dangerous the conditions are for them on this UN assignment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir health and safety should be of paramount concern, and in this particular incident none of them were seriously injured in this attack, which could so easily have led to loss of life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSinn F\u00e9in, along with others, opposed the sending of Irish troops on this particular mission because we were worried that Syrian anti-government forces would see them as legitimate targets and not neutral forces, because of recent EU decisions made in relation to Syria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is why Austrian troops pulled out, and sadly last night\u2019s attack proves beyond doubt, that some of these rebels groups are more than willing to launch attacks on Irish troops serving on this UN mission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the light of this latest attack I am once again calling on Defence Minister Alan Shatter to review the decision to station troops in the Golan Heights, and encourage him, for the health and safety of Irish soldiers, to facilitate their withdrawal from this contested and highly dangerous area.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crowe concerned for safety of Irish troops in Syria Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s Foreign Affairs spokesperson, Se\u00e1n Crowe TD, has expressed his anger and deep concern for the health and safety of Irish troops stationed in the Golan Heights after one of their regular patrol convoys came under attack from anti-government forces last night. Deputy Crowe said: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1416,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions\/1416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}