{"id":19705,"date":"2010-07-12T06:19:24","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T10:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=19705"},"modified":"2010-07-12T06:19:24","modified_gmt":"2010-07-12T10:19:24","slug":"shocker-al-qaeda-kills-most-civilians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19705","title":{"rendered":"Shocker: al Qaeda kills most civilians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong, every accidental death of a civilian is a tragedy, but <a href=\"http:\/\/ap.stripes.com\/dynamic\/stories\/A\/AS_AFGHAN_CIVILIAN_DEATHS?SITE=DCSAS&#038;SECTION=HOME&#038;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&#038;CTIME=2010-07-12-04-36-57\">the Associated Press<\/a> tells us this morning than al Qaeda has killed more than Americans this year <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[T]he share of accidental deaths by coalition and Afghan government forces &#8211; which can turn people against the government and foreign troops &#8211; is falling, the Afghan rights group said in a report.<\/p>\n<p>It said international forces were responsible for 210 civilian deaths from Jan. 1 to June 30 this year &#8211; about 20 percent of the total, down from 26 percent for the same period last year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You wouldn&#8217;t think so reading the media&#8217;s reports and listening to Harmid Karzai&#8217;s complaints. One must also wonder how accurate that 20 percent number is given the difficulty of determining the combatant status in this war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong, every accidental death of a civilian is a tragedy, but the Associated &hellip; <a title=\"Shocker: al Qaeda kills most civilians\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19705\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Shocker: al Qaeda kills most civilians<\/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":[84,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19705","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=19705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}