{"id":21737,"date":"2011-01-06T09:32:03","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T13:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21737"},"modified":"2011-01-06T09:32:03","modified_gmt":"2011-01-06T13:32:03","slug":"us-citizen-somalian-teenager-held-in-kuwait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21737","title":{"rendered":"US citizen, Somalian teenager held in Kuwait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/01\/06\/world\/middleeast\/06detain.html?_r=1&#038;ref=world\">New York Times<\/a> tells the heartbreaking story of a US citizen of Somalian heritage who traveled to Yemen, Somalia and now Kuwait and can&#8217;t understand why he&#8217;s being subjected to torture and imprisonment by Kuwaiti authorities;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The teenager, Gulet Mohamed, a Somali-American who turned 19 during his captivity, said in a telephone interview on Wednesday from a Kuwaiti detention cell that he was beaten with sticks, forced to stand for hours, threatened with electric shocks and warned that his mother would be imprisoned if he did not give truthful answers about his travels in Yemen and Somalia in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>American officials have offered few details about the case, except to confirm that Mr. Mohamed is on a no-fly list and, for now at least, cannot return to the United States. Mr. Mohamed, from Alexandria, Va., remains in a Kuwaiti detention center even after Kuwait\u2019s government, according to his brother, determined that he should be released. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See, he went to Yemen for about a month, but his mother got worried for his safety, so he went to Somalia for five months. Who does that? Since when is Somalia safer than Yemen? But anyway, then he went to Kuwait. That&#8217;s where Kuwaiti police cuffed and stuffed his ass in prison and the FBI put him on the no-fly list.<\/p>\n<p>If his mother was really worried about his safety, she would have kept him in Virginia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times tells the heartbreaking story of a US citizen of Somalian heritage who &hellip; <a title=\"US citizen, Somalian teenager held in Kuwait\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21737\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US citizen, Somalian teenager held in Kuwait<\/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-21737","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\/21737","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=21737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}