{"id":22946,"date":"2011-04-13T12:22:02","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T16:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22946"},"modified":"2011-04-13T12:22:02","modified_gmt":"2011-04-13T16:22:02","slug":"libyans-report-female-colombian-snipers-fight-for-qadaffi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22946","title":{"rendered":"Libyans report female Colombian snipers fight for Qadaffi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2011\/apr\/12\/libyan-rebelscolombian-female-snipers-fighting-for\/\">Washington Times<\/a> reports that Libyan rebels are telling tales of mysterious Colombian women who are snipers for the pro-Qaddafi forces;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>No Colombians have been captured or killed, but rebels this week said they have received accounts of their deadly marksmanship from pro-Gadhafi prisoners and from eyewitnesses in the besieged city Misurata, the largest city in western Libya still under partial rebel control.<\/p>\n<p>Rebel sources said the Colombians are part of a wider force of snipers firing from vantage points atop buildings in Misurata.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are shooting to kill,\u201d said Khalid, a doctor in Misurata who gave only his first name. He said most of the injured have head, chest and neck wounds.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Colombian women have long been the subject of myths among Latin American men wherever alcohol flows &#8211; no one can hire Colombians as domestics without tongues wagging. But the markswomen of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) is a new phenomenon;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>FARC also has highly trained female fighters capable of handling modern firearms, said Jaime Daremblum, a former Costa Rican ambassador to the United States who is director of the Center for Latin American Studies at the Washington-based Hudson Institute.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s another reason to resist inserting US forces into Libya. I don&#8217;t think our troops could handle shooting women very well, which is probably why Qaddafi is using them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Times reports that Libyan rebels are telling tales of mysterious Colombian women who are &hellip; <a title=\"Libyans report female Colombian snipers fight for Qadaffi\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22946\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Libyans report female Colombian snipers fight for Qadaffi<\/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-22946","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\/22946","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=22946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}