{"id":35024,"date":"2013-04-10T08:33:48","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T12:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=35024"},"modified":"2013-04-10T08:33:48","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T12:33:48","slug":"harroun-to-face-death-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35024","title":{"rendered":"Harroun to face death penalty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Athena sends us a link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/middleeast\/syria\/9981050\/US-soldier-faces-death-penalty-for-fighting-with-al-Qaeda-in-Syria.html\">UK&#8217;s Telegraph<\/a> which reports that Eric Harroun, a disabled former soldier, is facing the death penalty for joining in the Syrian Civil War with an al-Qaeda-linked group. According tp the article, Harroun&#8217;s best option is life in prison as a result of these charges;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Harroun faced the charges of working with Nusra and firing rocket propelled grenades while in Syria at a court in Virginia. The maximum penalty if found guilty is death, and the minimum is life imprisonment.<\/p>\n<p>After his arrest, Harroun, 30, told the FBI that he had killed 10 people while fighting against the regime of Bashar al-Assad. <\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors also said that [Syria\u2019s al-Nusra Front &#8211; which has been blacklisted by the United States] had tried to use Mr Harroun as an English-speaking spokesman. He returned to the US this year after travelling to Syrian in January 2013. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Harroun also has a plate in his head &#8211; the result of a non-combat injury that he sustained during his brief military service. I&#8217;m guessing that will play a large part in his defense and probably result in his release from the charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Athena sends us a link to the UK&#8217;s Telegraph which reports that Eric Harroun, a disabled &hellip; <a title=\"Harroun to face death penalty\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35024\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Harroun to face death penalty<\/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-35024","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\/35024","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=35024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}