{"id":34817,"date":"2013-03-28T17:13:22","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T21:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=34817"},"modified":"2013-03-28T17:13:22","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T21:13:22","slug":"harroun-arrested-in-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34817","title":{"rendered":"Harroun arrested in Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month we discussed Eric Harroun a couple of times. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34503\">Once when the Daily Mail did an article<\/a> on the American veteran who was fighting with the Syrian rebels and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34575\">again when the Washington Times<\/a> reported rumors that he&#8217;d been killed. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2013\/03\/28\/american-who-fought-with-al-qaeda-against-syria-assad-arrested-in-virginia\/\">Fox News<\/a>, in a link sent by ROS, says he&#8217;s alive and well and under arrest in Virginia;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to court documents, FBI agents conducted three interviews with Harroun this month after he voluntarily came to the U.S. Consulate in Istanbul. Harroun allegedly told the FBI that he wound up with the Al Qaeda affiliate after his rebel group was attacked, and was treated like a prisoner before being accepted. He told agents he shot at least 10 people in Syria, but said he didn\u2019t know how many, if any, were killed, according to prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p>Harroun was last interviewed in Istanbul on March 25, and two days later flew back to the U.S. where he was arrested at Dulles International Airport after telling the FBI he had used an RPG to take down a tower on \u201cat least one occasion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harroun appeared in federal court Thursday in Alexandria, Va., before U.S. Magistrate Judge Theresa Buchanan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He seems to be a bit of a nutball, so I&#8217;m glad he&#8217;s back in the States where he might be able to get some professional help instead of running around the Middle East with a gun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month we discussed Eric Harroun a couple of times. Once when the Daily Mail did &hellip; <a title=\"Harroun arrested in Virginia\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34817\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Harroun arrested in Virginia<\/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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34817","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=34817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}