{"id":28892,"date":"2012-02-27T08:04:41","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T12:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28892"},"modified":"2012-02-27T11:45:24","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T15:45:24","slug":"last-american-comes-home-from-iraq-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28892","title":{"rendered":"Last American soldier comes home from Iraq war"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lucky and Patrick send links to the story about Army Staff Sgt. Ahmed Altaie, the last American MIA in Iraq. We wrote about him last month briefly<\/a>. His family in the US tells McClatchy<\/a> that he has been confirmed as KIA and his remains are in the US.<\/p>\n

At about 1 a.m. Sunday, U.S. officers knocked on the door of the family home in Ann Arbor, Mich., with news that Army Staff Sgt. Ahmed Altaie was confirmed dead, though they had no details yet on how or when he died….<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Army Times<\/a> has the details of his capture and the struggle to get him released;<\/p>\n

Altaie\u2019s in-laws say he often met secretly with his wife at her family\u2019s home despite warnings that he was in danger of being kidnapped.<\/p>\n

It was during one of those visits that Altaie disappeared. Masked gunmen hiding in an abandoned Saddam-era army building seized him as he went to find his wife at her uncle\u2019s house, less than two blocks away in the Karradah.<\/p>\n

\u201cA neighbor saw the gunmen and went to my family and informed them. My parents, brothers and sisters all came at once and pleaded with them to let him go,\u201d Altaie\u2019s sister-in-law Shaimaa Abdul-Sattar, who witnessed the abduction, told the AP during an interview in 2010 at her Baghdad apartment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Qanbar, Altaie\u2019s uncle, denied during a previous interview that any ransom demand had been made, but he described for the AP a web of negotiations with a number of intermediaries as he continued to pursue leads through the years. Altaie was last seen four months after his abduction in a video posted on the Internet by a Shiite militant faction called Ahl al-Bayt Brigades.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

OK, so now, all Americans are home from that war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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