{"id":34503,"date":"2013-03-12T05:53:31","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T09:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=34503"},"modified":"2013-03-12T05:53:31","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T09:53:31","slug":"us-army-veteran-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34503","title":{"rendered":"US Army veteran in Syria?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Athena sends us a link to the Daily Mail<\/a> which tells the story of Eric Harroun, supposedly an Army veteran who is fighting among the Syrian rebels. According to the article, Harroun joined the Army in 2000 and was medically retired in 2003 before he deployed when a pickup he was riding in slammed into a tree and he earned a plate in his skull.<\/p>\n

So he has carried his ass over to Syria seeking to topple the regime while fighting among the al-Qaeda-linked rebels.<\/p>\n

His story will undoubtedly infuriate the hundreds of thousands of service men and women who have risked their lives on the battlefields fighting al Qaeda, only to learn that he never actually served overseas for the United States, picking up disability pay for years before going over to fight for the terrorist-backed organization.<\/p>\n

‘Getting into al-Nusra is not rocket science,’ he said. ‘It just takes balls and brains.’<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He describes himself as a Sunni Muslim on Facebook and writes about his hatred of Israel and Zionists. Under his ‘Favorite Quotations’ section of his profile he writes, ‘The only good Zionist is a dead Zionist.’<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, then, he’s right where he belongs. The only Eric Harroun I could find in AKO is a Navy PO3 who is still on active duty, but I guess there’d be no need for him to have an AKO account after ten years. His Facebook page is here<\/a>, but it doesn’t have all of the stuff that Daily Mail says is there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Athena sends us a link to the Daily Mail which tells the story of Eric Harroun, … US Army veteran in Syria?<\/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-34503","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\/34503","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=34503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}