{"id":18723,"date":"2010-04-21T09:44:05","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T14:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=18723"},"modified":"2010-04-21T09:44:05","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T14:44:05","slug":"seal-trial-opens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=18723","title":{"rendered":"SEAL trial opens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2010\/04\/21\/court-martial-navy-seal-opens-iraq\/?test=latestnews\">Punch Heard Round the World case <\/a>has started in Iraq:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A U.S. sailor testified Wednesday he saw a Navy SEAL punch an Iraqi prisoner suspected of masterminding the killings in 2004 of four U.S. private security contractors, as the court-martial of another member of the elite unit allegedly involved in the incident opened at a military base outside Baghdad.<\/p>\n<p>Petty Officer 1st Class Julio Huertas, wearing his blue Navy uniform, appeared in a military courtroom at the Victory Base Camp on Baghdad&#8217;s western outskirts to answer charges of dereliction of duty and impeding an official investigation. He has pleaded not guilty.<\/p>\n<p>Huertas, 28, of Blue Island, Illinois, is the first of three Navy SEALs to go on trial in connection with the alleged assault of the Iraqi prisoner, Ahmed Hashim Abed. He is accused of failing to safeguard the prisoner and attempting to influence the testimony of another service member.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Let&#8217;s home the collateral bruising doesn&#8217;t ruin these guys careers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, the Punch Heard Round the World case has started in Iraq: A U.S. sailor testified &hellip; <a title=\"SEAL trial opens\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=18723\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SEAL trial opens<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18723","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\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}