{"id":38162,"date":"2013-10-28T06:09:46","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T10:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38162"},"modified":"2013-10-28T06:09:46","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T10:09:46","slug":"farc-releases-soldier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38162","title":{"rendered":"FARC releases soldier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We discussed Kevin Scott Sutay, a former Army private, when Colombian terrorists of FARC snagged him <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36721\">back in June<\/a>. Apparently, his release was negotiated by Jesse Jackson, probably because Jackson speaks their Maoist language. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/us\/colombian-rebels-free-former-american-soldier-1.249465\">Associated Press<\/a> reports;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Sutay was in Colombia as a tourist, the U.S. Embassy has said. The FARC said it captured him on June 20 in the municipality of El Retorno in the southeastern state of Guaviare.<\/p>\n<p>When it announced his capture, the FARC said it suspected him of being an agent of the U.S. government, whose close military assistance in training, logistics, surveillance and intelligence since 2000 has helped Colombia&#8217;s government badly weaken the rebels.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What would you think of a man who is in a war zone, who has a secret camera in his watch, who is carrying (global) positioning equipment &#8230; who has a military uniform in his suitcase?&#8221; FARC negotiator Rodrigo Granda said after the rebels announced his capture.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I can understand someone going to Bogota on vacation (they have beautiful women and some rowdy clubs there), but wandering around the jungle, not so much, but to each their own. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We discussed Kevin Scott Sutay, a former Army private, when Colombian terrorists of FARC snagged him &hellip; <a title=\"FARC releases soldier\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38162\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FARC releases soldier<\/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-38162","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\/38162","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=38162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}