{"id":54197,"date":"2014-07-27T08:31:31","date_gmt":"2014-07-27T12:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=54197"},"modified":"2014-07-27T08:31:31","modified_gmt":"2014-07-27T12:31:31","slug":"afghan-teen-murders-three-unarmed-marines-gets-7-years-in-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54197","title":{"rendered":"Afghan teen murders three unarmed Marines, gets 7 years in jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ainuddin Khudairaham was 17 years old when, as a aide to a local police chief in Kandahar, he stole a rifle and murdered three US Marines while they were working out in a gym (a gun-free zone) about two years ago. So he goes to trial, the Afghan courts try him as a juvenile and he gets sentenced to 7 1\/2 years &#8211; the max for a juvenile. From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/marine-corps\/afghan-teen-gets-7-years-for-killing-3-marines-injuring-another-1.295356\">Washington Post<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The sentence came as a surprise to the families of the victims, who said they had been promised by Marine officials that the suspect would be tried as an adult, with the possibility of the death penalty.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Michael Bowe, a lawyer assisting Buckley&#8217;s family, said the relatives were not told about the trial date until Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yesterday, we received reports that, in fact, the murderer already had been tried and sentenced as a juvenile,&#8221; Bowe said in a letter Friday to a Marine lawyer involved in the case, Maj. Jennifer Parker. &#8220;Neither you nor the Marine Corps notified the Buckley family of this development, and they were left instead to scramble to confirm rumors communicated to them from the press and other sources.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But the Afghans are our allies. The withdrawal can&#8217;t come soon enough, in some regards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ainuddin Khudairaham was 17 years old when, as a aide to a local police chief in &hellip; <a title=\"Afghan teen murders three unarmed Marines, gets 7 years in jail\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54197\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Afghan teen murders three unarmed Marines, gets 7 years in jail<\/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-54197","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\/54197","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=54197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}