{"id":18738,"date":"2010-04-22T10:00:04","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T15:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=18738"},"modified":"2010-04-22T17:23:25","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T22:23:25","slug":"dancing-on-their-own-grave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=18738","title":{"rendered":"Dancing on their own grave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jerry920 sent us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/news\/article\/video-shows-taliban-swarm-former-us-base.html?wh=news&#038;ESRC=army-a.nl\">this link to a story<\/a> about how the US abandoned a base in Afghanistan and the Taliban danced around and celebrated their victory;<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"500\" height=\"333\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/WamBeYQeRvE&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/WamBeYQeRvE&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t want Americans, we don&#8217;t want Germans or any other foreigner. We don&#8217;t want foreigners, we want peace. We want Taliban and Islam &#8212; we don&#8217;t want anything else,&#8221; one local resident said on the tape.<\/p>\n<p>Another man identified by Al-Jazeera as a local Taliban commander said the militants intended to use the base for attacks on U.S. forces.<\/p>\n<p>Maj. T.G. Taylor, a spokesman for U.S. forces in eastern Afghanistan, said the Americans destroyed major firing positions and observation posts before they left, and if militants tried to use the base &#8220;we have two companies that can do an air assault there anytime we want.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Did they think we threw away the grid coordinates to the place? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jerry920 sent us this link to a story about how the US abandoned a base in &hellip; <a title=\"Dancing on their own grave\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=18738\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dancing on their own grave<\/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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18738","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=18738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}