{"id":19901,"date":"2010-07-28T07:00:58","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T11:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=19901"},"modified":"2010-07-28T07:00:58","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T11:00:58","slug":"gurkha-charged-for-beheading-dead-taliban-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19901","title":{"rendered":"Gurkha charged for beheading dead Taliban leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MEW sends us a link to an article about a young Gurkha soldier who, in the confusion of battle hacked off the head of a dead Taliban leader for identification purposes. The 20-year-old is now facing charges in Britain over the incident. From the <a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/World\/UK\/Gurkha-soldier-beheads-dead-Taliban-in-dock\/articleshow\/6185019.cms\">Times of India<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>His unit had been told that they were seeking a &#8216;high value target,&#8217; a Taliban commander, and that they must prove they had killed the right man, Daily Mail reported.<\/p>\n<p>The Gurkhas had tried to take the Taliban leader&#8217;s body away from the battlefield. But they came under heavy fire as they tried to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Military sources said that in the heat of battle, the Gurkha took out his curved kukri and beheaded the dead insurgent. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strategypage.com\/htmw\/htmurph\/articles\/20100721.aspx\">Strategy Page<\/a> picks up the story from there;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When senior British commanders heard of this, they had the Gurkha arrested (and sent back to Britain for trial), and apologized to the family of the dead Taliban. The head was returned, so that the entire body (as required by Islamic law) could be buried. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, at least the commander was dead. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEW sends us a link to an article about a young Gurkha soldier who, in the &hellip; <a title=\"Gurkha charged for beheading dead Taliban leader\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19901\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gurkha charged for beheading dead Taliban leader<\/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-19901","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\/19901","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=19901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}