{"id":39885,"date":"2014-02-18T11:22:59","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T16:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39885"},"modified":"2014-02-18T11:22:59","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T16:22:59","slug":"trading-5-gitmo-alumni-for-bowe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39885","title":{"rendered":"Trading 5 Gitmo alumni for Bowe?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tman sends us a link from <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/us-seek-soldier-39-freedom-via-taliban-prisoner-062057945.html\">Agency Press France<\/a> which reports that the Obama Administration is in talks with the Haqqani network or someone to trade SGT Bowe Bergdahl for 5 graduates of the Guantanamo Advanced Studies group;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki told AFP that she could not discuss details of US efforts but that &#8220;there should be no doubt that we work every day &#8212; using our military, intelligence and diplomatic tools &#8212; to try to see Sergeant Bergdahl returned home safely.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to the Post, the offer has not been formally made, adding that Bergdahl is thought to be held in Pakistan by the Haqqani network.<\/p>\n<p>The US Army sergeant is the only American soldier held captive by Taliban militants.<\/p>\n<p>In January the United States obtained a &#8220;proof of life&#8221; video of Bergdahl &#8212; the first providing evidence he was still alive in more than three years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t like that we&#8217;re negotiating with these clowns from a position of weakness, I mean 5 for 1? But as long as we get him home. As I&#8217;ve said before, I&#8217;ve heard the stories about his capture, but he doesn&#8217;t deserve to be beheaded for it. Let&#8217;s get him home and work out the other issues later. I also hope that they &#8216;tag&#8217; those five so we can find them again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tman sends us a link from Agency Press France which reports that the Obama Administration is &hellip; <a title=\"Trading 5 Gitmo alumni for Bowe?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39885\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trading 5 Gitmo alumni for Bowe?<\/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-39885","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\/39885","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=39885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}