{"id":54745,"date":"2014-08-25T07:00:26","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T11:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=54745"},"modified":"2014-08-24T18:40:37","modified_gmt":"2014-08-24T22:40:37","slug":"peter-theo-curtis-released-by-al-qaeda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54745","title":{"rendered":"Peter Theo Curtis released by al Qaeda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=54746\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-54746\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Peter-Theo-Curtis-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Peter Theo Curtis\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-54746\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Peter-Theo-Curtis-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Peter-Theo-Curtis-444x333.jpg 444w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Peter-Theo-Curtis-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Peter-Theo-Curtis.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2014\/08\/24\/kerry-terror-group-jabhat-al-nusrah-has-released-american-hostage-theo-curtis\/\">Fox News<\/a> reports that journalist Peter Theo Curtis who has been held by the al Qaeda group, Jabhat Al-Nusrah, was released yesterday after two years of captivity.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[T]he Curtis family said the government of Qatar was involved in the release, which was carried out on a humanitarian basis without ransom.<\/p>\n<p>The family believes the 45-year-old Curtis was captured shortly after he crossed into Syria in October 2012.<\/p>\n<p>What prompted Curtis\u2019 release is unclear. However, the United Nations said it helped with the handover to U.N. peacekeepers in a village in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights and that Curtis was released to American authorities after a medical checkup.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/embed.js?id=3746535877001&#038;w=466&#038;h=263\"><\/script><noscript>Watch the latest video at <a href=\"http:\/\/video.foxnews.com\">video.foxnews.com<\/a><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>The al Qaeda folks are disassociating themselves from the ISIS\/ISIL\/Islamic State folks because of the ISIS habit of killing anyone who isn&#8217;t them. I&#8217;m thinking that the barbaric murder of James Foley last week probably prompted them to release Curtis. The international outrage probably influeced them, too. It&#8217;s kind of like when IVAW decided that they didn&#8217;t want to be flag burners and booted Matthis Chiroux. Even extremists have their limits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News reports that journalist Peter Theo Curtis who has been held by the al Qaeda &hellip; <a title=\"Peter Theo Curtis released by al Qaeda\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54745\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Peter Theo Curtis released by al Qaeda<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54745","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=54745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/54746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}