{"id":35227,"date":"2013-04-22T07:29:43","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T11:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=35227"},"modified":"2013-04-22T07:29:43","modified_gmt":"2013-04-22T11:29:43","slug":"taliban-takes-hostages-from-mi-8-in-bad-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35227","title":{"rendered":"Taliban takes hostages from Mi-8 in bad weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/middle-east\/afghan-taliban-capture-10-hostages-after-helo-makes-emergency-landing-1.217635\">The Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a> reports that the Taliban captured passengers from a Russian Mi-8 that was forced down in bad weather;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> The chopper, a Russian Mil Mi-8 operated by the Afghan contractor Khorasan Cargo Airlines, was carrying as many as seven Turks, two Russians and one Afghan when it had to make an emergency landing Sunday in Azra district of Logar province, according to a Khorasan spokesman.<\/p>\n<p>The crew had the misfortune of landing next to a former medical clinic that is now being used by the Taliban as a military outpost, according to Logar Provincial Council member Dr. Abdul Wali Wakil, who is from Azra district. Wakil put the number of Turks taken hostage at six.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently, ISAF is letting the Afghans manage the rescue, so I don&#8217;t see it ending well for anyone. All of the hostages are civilians and the bird was carrying construction material.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Stars &#038; Stripes reports that the Taliban captured passengers from a Russian Mi-8 that was &hellip; <a title=\"Taliban takes hostages from Mi-8 in bad weather\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35227\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Taliban takes hostages from Mi-8 in bad weather<\/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-35227","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\/35227","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=35227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}