{"id":28347,"date":"2012-01-17T14:13:51","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T18:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28347"},"modified":"2012-01-17T14:15:35","modified_gmt":"2012-01-17T18:15:35","slug":"staring-the-air-force-right-in-the-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28347","title":{"rendered":"Staring the Air Force right in the face"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our buddy, Jeff Schogol sends us a link from his new desk at the Air Force Times entitled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/2012\/01\/air-force-motive-in-kabul-shooting-deaths-remains-elusive-011712\/\">Motive in Kabul shooting deaths remains elusive<\/a>&#8220;. Well it remains elusive if you don&#8217;t look at the evidence. Its about Afghan Major Ahmed Gul who gunned down in cold blood eight airmen and a contractor at Kabul International Airport and then wrote \u201cGod is one\u201d and \u201cGod in your name\u201d in blood on the walls of the room before taking his own life.<\/p>\n<p>The author recounts some of the background of Major Gul;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 2006, Gul decided to move to Pakistan and started attending a local mosque, where he met an \u201cunknown prominent figure\u201d who is believed to have radicalized him. There were also rumors that Gul wanted to be a suicide bomber.<\/p>\n<p>When Gul decided to move back to Afghanistan in 2008, people asked him why he would go back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Gul] responded he \u2018wanted to kill Americans,\u2019\u201d investigators said.<\/p>\n<p>But the people he told didn\u2019t take any action. They didn\u2019t believe him.<\/p>\n<p>The public copy of the Air Force\u2019s investigation doesn\u2019t discuss how Gul entered the Afghan Air Force and whether any questions were raised about his mental or emotional health.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, someone heard him say that he wanted to kill Americans, yet they still put him in a position where he could realize those desires.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cHe was a breath of fresh air with his smile, he was always the first to come in and shake everyone\u2019s hand and exchange greetings,\u201d he said. \u201cHe was trusted.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, except for that whole &#8220;kill Americans&#8221; thing he had going on.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But in the days after the shooting, several questions lingered: Could the relationship between the Afghans and their U.S. trainers be repaired? And how would U.S. leadership keep something like this from happening again?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, gee, I don&#8217;t know either. At least, in this case, the victims were all armed and one had the opportunity to return fire after the surprise subsided. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our buddy, Jeff Schogol sends us a link from his new desk at the Air Force &hellip; <a title=\"Staring the Air Force right in the face\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28347\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Staring the Air Force right in the face<\/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-28347","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\/28347","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=28347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}