{"id":31619,"date":"2024-02-02T03:11:57","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T08:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=31619"},"modified":"2024-02-02T06:02:50","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T11:02:50","slug":"us-halts-3-billion-drone-deal-with-india-amid-assassination-plot-investigation-inside-the-controversy-dispatch-weekly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=31619","title":{"rendered":"US Halts $3 Billion Drone Deal with India Amid Assassination Plot Investigation: Inside the Controversy | Dispatch Weekly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"hoverZoomLink alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/MinisterModi-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"115\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">The United States has postponed the dispatch of 31 MQ-9A drones, encompassing both Sea Guardian and Sky Guardian models, to India. This delay is contingent upon India conducting a substantial inquiry into allegations surrounding an attempt on the life of Gurpatwant Singh Pannun.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/dispatchweekly.org\/p\/us-halts-3-billion-drone-deal-with-india-amid-assassination-plot-investigation-inside-the-controversy\">US Halts $3 Billion Drone Deal with India Amid Assassination Plot Investigation: Inside the Controversy | Dispatch Weekly<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Weird.  Not even a day later the deal is approved: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedefensepost.com\/2024\/02\/01\/us-drone-sale-india\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">US Approves $4B Sale of MQ-9B Drones, Hellfire Missiles to India<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States has postponed the dispatch of 31 MQ-9A drones, encompassing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[41,1815,57],"class_list":["post-31619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-india","tag-sikh","tag-usa","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31619"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31624,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31619\/revisions\/31624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}