{"id":34575,"date":"2013-03-15T11:10:17","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T15:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=34575"},"modified":"2013-03-15T11:13:25","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T15:13:25","slug":"eric-harroun-killed-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34575","title":{"rendered":"Eric Harroun killed in Syria?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day we talked about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34503\">Eric Harroun<\/a> who claimed to be a US Army veteran fighting with the Syrian rebels in one of their more radical groups. Today, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2013\/mar\/15\/us-army-vet-who-became-jihadist-killed-syria-websi\/\">Washington Times<\/a> reports that he may have been killed in action with new-found jihadist friends;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A graphic video posted online by Syria Tube, a pro-government site, shows the death of someone who resembles Eric Harroun, 30, a Muslim convert who boasted of his Jihadi exploits on his Facebook page, AOL Defense reported Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTerrorists, including American Extremist \u2018Eric Harroun,\u2019 Have Been Terminated,\u201d reads the headline of the video, according to AOL.<\/p>\n<p>Neither Mr. Harroun\u2019s family, nor the Pentagon, could confirm whether he was dead or alive, AOL Defense reported.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We all know how notoriously inaccurate these types of reports are, but given the subject, I didn&#8217;t feel like I should pass by it without mentioning it. According to his father, Eric Harroun wasn&#8217;t wired too tight and since he never deployed, it can&#8217;t be blamed on his service, I suppose. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/outbound-feeds\/yahoo-news\/Phoenix-mans-family-denies-claims-hes-tied-to-Al-Qaeda-197255531.html\">His family denied<\/a> that he was fighting with al Qaeda-linked rebels. But who can tell over there in that mess?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day we talked about Eric Harroun who claimed to be a US Army veteran &hellip; <a title=\"Eric Harroun killed in Syria?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34575\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Eric Harroun killed 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-34575","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\/34575","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=34575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}