{"id":56884,"date":"2014-12-06T08:10:37","date_gmt":"2014-12-06T13:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=56884"},"modified":"2014-12-06T08:10:37","modified_gmt":"2014-12-06T13:10:37","slug":"luke-somers-killed-in-rescue-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56884","title":{"rendered":"Luke Somers killed in rescue attempt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=56885\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-56885\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Luke-Somers-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Luke-Somers\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-56885\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Luke-Somers-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Luke-Somers-500x280.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Luke-Somers.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2014\/12\/06\/us-hostage-in-yemen-died-in-failed-rescue-attempt-sister-says\/\">Fox News<\/a> reports that last night, American hostage, Luke Somers, was killed by his captors during an attempt by US Special Forces to rescue him;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Luke Somers was still alive, but badly injured when the team reached him, a Yemeni national security official told Fox News. The official said Somers was shot by militants. None of the special forces members were injured.<\/p>\n<p>Hagel said in the statement that the rescue bid was conducted in partnership with the Yemen&#8217;s government and its security forces.Ten militants were killed between the rescue attempt and the drone strike prior to the mission, the Yemeni official confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>South African hostage Pierre Korkie was the other hostage killed in the operation, the Gift of the Givers, a South African aid group confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>President Obama, who ordered the mission, released a statement early Saturday morning condemning the &#8220;barbaric murder&#8221; of Somers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News reports that last night, American hostage, Luke Somers, was killed by his captors during &hellip; <a title=\"Luke Somers killed in rescue attempt\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56884\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Luke Somers killed in rescue attempt<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56884","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\/56884","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=56884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}