{"id":55664,"date":"2014-10-06T12:00:16","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T16:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=55664"},"modified":"2014-10-06T11:30:32","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T15:30:32","slug":"us-airstrikes-target-french-turncoat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=55664","title":{"rendered":"US airstrikes target French turncoat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul sends us a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/2014\/10\/05\/242218_sources-us-air-strikes-in-syria.html?rh=1\">McClatchy<\/a> which reports that one of the main targets of US airstrikes last month was a French intelligence officer who defected to ISIS\/ISIL\/Islamic State.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Two European intelligence officials described the former French officer as the highest ranking defector ever to go over to the terrorist group and called his defection one of the most dangerous developments in the West\u2019s long confrontation with al Qaida.<\/p>\n<p>The identity of the officer is a closely guarded secret. Two people, independently of one another, provided the same name, which McClatchy is withholding pending further confirmation. All of the sources agreed that a former French officer was one of the people targeted when the United States struck eight locations occupied by the Nusra Front, al Qaida\u2019s Syrian affiliate. The former officer apparently survived the assault, which included strikes by 47 cruise missiles.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nimble little shit, ain&#8217;t he? TAH has been able to acquire an artist&#8217;s rendering of how the defector looks based on exclusive interviews with his former workmates;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=55667\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-55667\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/pepe-le-pew-300x270.jpg\" alt=\"pepe-le-pew\" width=\"300\" height=\"270\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-55667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/pepe-le-pew-300x270.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/pepe-le-pew.jpg 305w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul sends us a link to McClatchy which reports that one of the main targets of &hellip; <a title=\"US airstrikes target French turncoat\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=55664\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US airstrikes target French turncoat<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55664","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\/55664","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=55664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}