{"id":62432,"date":"2015-10-24T11:35:28","date_gmt":"2015-10-24T15:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=62432"},"modified":"2015-10-24T11:55:40","modified_gmt":"2015-10-24T15:55:40","slug":"taliban-stranded-on-an-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62432","title":{"rendered":"Taliban stranded on an island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/afghanistan-says-taliban-fighters-marooned-river-island-134441450.html\">Reuters<\/a> reports that several dozen Taliban fighters are stranded on an island in the Amu River between <del datetime=\"2015-10-24T15:55:31+00:00\">Turkey<\/del>Turkmenistan and Afghanistan. The Taliban deny that they&#8217;re stranded, but that&#8217;s pretty typical of them.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> &#8220;They have no choice but to surrender or starve,&#8221; [a spokesman for Vice President General Abdul Rashid Dostum] said, adding that Afghan troops had not advanced so as not to enter Turkmenistan.<\/p>\n<p>A Taliban spokesman denied its fighters were marooned, saying they were basing themselves on the Afghan side of the island to stage their fight against government forces.<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan&#8217;s vice president has been leading about 2,000 Afghan troops in the northern province of Jawzjan against the insurgents making a broad push across the north of the country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe they can send in Delta to &#8220;rescue&#8221; them, you know, since Delta seems to be in the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters reports that several dozen Taliban fighters are stranded on an island in the Amu River &hellip; <a title=\"Taliban stranded on an island\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62432\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Taliban stranded on an island<\/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-62432","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\/62432","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=62432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}