{"id":26571,"date":"2011-09-19T11:14:10","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T15:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26571"},"modified":"2011-09-19T11:14:10","modified_gmt":"2011-09-19T15:14:10","slug":"4-americans-held-in-mozambique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26571","title":{"rendered":"4 Americans held in Mozambique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four Americans and a briton are being held by mozambique authorities on weapons charges while they were attempting to free a pirated ship according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-africa-14952999\">BBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nampula provincial police spokesperson Inacio Dina told the BBC that the weapons include an FN 5.5mm rifle, as well as ammunition and communications equipment.<\/p>\n<p>The police have named the leader of the group as 42-year-old US citizen Michael Ferguson. He has not commented to the press.<\/p>\n<p>The group had reportedly flown from the United States via Ethiopia and Kenya, where they picked up the weapons.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Ferguson reportedly said their plan was to catch small boats in the northern Mozambican coastal city of Pemba before joining a larger vessel and trying to free the boat from pirates &#8211; it is not clear which ship they were allegedly trying to rescue.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ferguson is reportedly a former Navy SEAL and a Vice President of the security company <a href=\"http:\/\/greysidegroup.com\/index.html\">Greyside Group<\/a> which purports to provide &#8220;risk management&#8221; services for commercial and government clients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four Americans and a briton are being held by mozambique authorities on weapons charges while they &hellip; <a title=\"4 Americans held in Mozambique\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26571\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">4 Americans held in Mozambique<\/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":[157],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pirates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26571","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=26571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}