{"id":52377,"date":"2018-08-03T01:01:33","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T23:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/08\/03\/army-chief-defends-british-soldiers-over-northern-ireland\/"},"modified":"2018-08-03T01:01:33","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T23:01:33","slug":"army-chief-defends-british-soldiers-over-northern-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=52377","title":{"rendered":"Army chief defends British soldiers over Northern Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gen Sir Nick Carter says he will stand by veterans facing \u2018vexatious claims\u2019 relating to the TroublesThe new chief of the defence staff, Gen Sir Nick Carter, vowed to fight against sweeping moves to prosecute British soldiers over their role in Northern Ireland.He said individual soldiers involved in wrongdoing could not expect immunity but he was opposed to veterans being pursued by people with \u201cvexatious claims\u201d. He added: \u201cThat will not happen on my watch. Absolutely not.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2018\/aug\/03\/army-chief-defends-british-soldiers-over-northern-ireland\" target=\"_blank\">Army chief defends British soldiers over Northern Ireland<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gen Sir Nick Carter says he will stand by veterans facing \u2018vexatious claims\u2019 relating to the TroublesThe new chief of the defence staff, Gen Sir Nick Carter, vowed to fight against sweeping moves to prosecute British soldiers over their role in Northern Ireland.He said individual soldiers involved in wrongdoing could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}