A.M. Links: US Troops Oppose "Boots on the Ground" in Iraq, Jerry Brown Vetoes Bill Limiting Police Drones, Pro-Democracy Protests in Hong Kong Grow

• More than 70 percent of U.S. troops surveyed opposed putting
  “boots on the ground” in Iraq in
  order to fight the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS). The
  leader of the Al-Qaeda affiliate in
  Syria, meanwhile, warned of terrorist attacks in the U.S. and
  Europe as retribution for air strikes against their group and ISIS
  in the country.
• Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) says he wants an investigation into
  how a contract employee was able to start a fire at a regional
  flight control center that caused the cancellation of thousands of
  flights in and out of
  Chicago and disrupted air traffic nationwide.
• Gov.
  Jerry Brown (D-Ca.) vetoed a bill that would have limited
  police use of drones in the state.
• A doctor who may have contracted Ebola while working in
  
  Sierra Leone returned to the United States and checked himself
  in with the National Institute of Health.
• Anti-Beijing, pro-democracy demonstrations in
  Hong Kong grew after police used tear gas to disperse
  protesters.
• At least 31 people could be dead after
  Mount Ontake, in central Japan, erupted this weekend.

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