{"id":1070,"date":"2008-01-10T09:18:17","date_gmt":"2008-01-10T13:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/10\/blackwater-rescues-us-citizens-in-kenya\/"},"modified":"2008-01-10T12:35:01","modified_gmt":"2008-01-10T16:35:01","slug":"blackwater-rescues-us-citizens-in-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1070","title":{"rendered":"Blackwater rescues US citizens in Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"7586335_BG1.jpg\" id=\"image1072\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/7586335_BG1.jpg\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"7586335_BG4.jpg\" id=\"image1073\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/7586335_BG4.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Photos from <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.woodtv.com\/global\/story.asp?s=7586335\">WOOD TV8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20080110\/NATION\/496979407\/1001\">Washington Times<\/a> this morning Jerry Seper writes the story destined to be the most ignored story in the media today;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Three young women have returned home to Michigan after being rescued from an orphanage in a remote village of strife-torn Kenya by Blackwater Worldwide.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yep, those border-line terrorists (um, sarcasm, folks) of Blackwater acting completely out of character (more sarcasm) stopped murdering innocent civilians (more sarcasm, in case you haven&#8217;t noticed a pattern yet) long enough to stage a rescue mission;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I knew the girls were in incredible danger, and I was calling anyone and everyone I could trying to get help but without success,&#8221; Mr. VanderMey said. &#8220;Then Erik Prince called, asked about the situation and said he was going to do what he could to get my girls out of harm&#8217;s way.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It wasn&#8217;t the image that most people have of Blackwater,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But I can assure you these are dedicated men, professionals who know how to help people in times like this.&#8217; &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Blackwater spokeswoman Anne E. Tyrrell said the &#8220;best thing&#8221; about being a company owned, managed and staffed almost entirely by U.S. military veterans and former law-enforcement agents &#8220;is that it puts us in a position to help people who need it most.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These are three incredible girls who went to Kenya to help and ended up needing help,&#8221; she said. &#8220;We are delighted they are safe and at home with their families.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My personal thanks to my fellow veterans in Blackwater for the countless other lives they&#8217;ve saved in addition to these. If all of their stories were told, maybe the country would have another opinion of them.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the situation in Kenya, I always check out <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.luoamerican.com\/\">Baldilocks<\/a> first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photos from WOOD TV8 In the Washington Times this morning Jerry Seper writes the story destined &hellip; <a title=\"Blackwater rescues US citizens in Kenya\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1070\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blackwater rescues US citizens in Kenya<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6,5,13,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-policy","category-media","category-politics","category-society","category-support-the-troops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}