{"id":46623,"date":"2014-05-10T09:07:54","date_gmt":"2014-05-10T13:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=46623"},"modified":"2014-05-10T09:07:54","modified_gmt":"2014-05-10T13:07:54","slug":"2-americans-fight-off-kidnapping-attempt-in-yemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=46623","title":{"rendered":"2 Americans fight off kidnapping attempt in Yemen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/05\/10\/world\/middleeast\/us-officers-kill-armed-civilians-in-yemen-capital.html?hp&#038;_r=2\">The New York Times<\/a> reports that a CIA officer and a lieutenant colonel went to get a haircut in Yemen last month but ended the day by killing two armed terrorists who attempted to kidnap them;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> A United States Special Operations commando and a Central Intelligence Agency officer in Yemen shot and killed two armed Yemeni civilians who tried to kidnap them while the Americans were in a barbershop in the country\u2019s capital two weeks ago, American officials said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The two Americans, attached to the United States Embassy, were whisked out of the volatile Middle East nation within a few days of the shooting, with the blessing of the Yemeni government, American officials said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The kidnapping attempt was apparently in Sanaa and the US consulate there was closed earlier this week because of violence there, says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2014\/05\/10\/us-officers-killed-2-yemenis-during-april-abduction-attempt\/?intcmp=latestnews\">Fox News<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Earlier this week, the U.S. Embassy in Sanaa closed temporarily because of attacks on Westerners. A day before Tuesday&#8217;s closure, gunmen opened fire on three French security guards working with the European Union mission in the Yemeni capital, killing one and wounding another.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times reports that a CIA officer and a lieutenant colonel went to get &hellip; <a title=\"2 Americans fight off kidnapping attempt in Yemen\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=46623\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2 Americans fight off kidnapping attempt in Yemen<\/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-46623","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\/46623","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=46623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}