{"id":60109,"date":"2015-05-31T10:00:15","date_gmt":"2015-05-31T14:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=60109"},"modified":"2015-05-30T20:23:24","modified_gmt":"2015-05-31T00:23:24","slug":"tajiks-gulmurod-khalimov-defects-to-isis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=60109","title":{"rendered":"Tajiks&#8217; Gulmurod Khalimov defects to ISIS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=60110\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-60110\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Gulmurod-Khalimov-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Gulmurod Khalimov\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-60110\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Gulmurod-Khalimov-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Gulmurod-Khalimov-444x333.jpg 444w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Gulmurod-Khalimov-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Gulmurod-Khalimov.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>John S sends us a link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/worldviews\/wp\/2015\/05\/28\/the-u-s-trained-commander-of-tajikistans-special-forces-has-joined-the-islamic-state\/\">Washington Post<\/a> which reports that Colonel Gulmurod Khalimov, the commander of Tajikistan&#8217;s special forces defected to ISIS in Syria while everyone wondered where he went. According to multiple news sources, Khalimov was trained by US special forces as well as the Russian Spetznatz. He had a special message for Americans in the video that he made, speaking Russian;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Listen, you American pigs, I\u2019ve been three times to America, and I saw how you train fighters to kill Muslims,&#8221; he said. &#8220;God willing, I will come with this weapon to your cities, your homes, and we will kill you.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>God willing, yes you will. &#8220;A rifle behind each blade of grass&#8221;. Sound familiar, Gullie?<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=57866\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-57866\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Cometh1-300x268.jpg\" alt=\"Cometh1\" width=\"300\" height=\"268\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-57866\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Cometh1-300x268.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Cometh1-373x333.jpg 373w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Cometh1.jpg 1086w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>How&#8217;s that whole &#8220;smart diplomacy&#8221; thing working out for us? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John S sends us a link to the Washington Post which reports that Colonel Gulmurod Khalimov, &hellip; <a title=\"Tajiks&#8217; Gulmurod Khalimov defects to ISIS\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=60109\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tajiks&#8217; Gulmurod Khalimov defects to ISIS<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60109","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\/60109","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=60109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}