{"id":65346,"date":"2016-04-20T08:25:19","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T12:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=65346"},"modified":"2016-04-20T08:25:19","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T12:25:19","slug":"afghan-arrested-for-2012-murder-of-2-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65346","title":{"rendered":"Afghan arrested for 2012 murder of 2 Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=65347\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-65347\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Loftis-and-Marchanti-300x217.jpg\" alt=\"Loftis and Marchanti\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-65347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Loftis-and-Marchanti-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Loftis-and-Marchanti-460x333.jpg 460w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Loftis-and-Marchanti.jpg 598w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Nicki sends us a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/afghan-man-arrested-for-2012-slaying-of-2-us-officers-1.405186\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a> which reports the arrest of Abdul Saboor who has admitted that in 2012 he murdered Air Force Lt. Col. John D. Loftis of Paducah, Ky., and Maryland Army National Guard Maj. Robert J. Marchanti II of Baltimore while they were in the Interior Ministry building.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The shooting deaths of the two American advisers came in the early days of deadly riots across the country over news that American soldiers had burned Qurans at Bagram Air Field. The slayings prompted NATO to temporarily withdraw all coalition advisers from Afghan ministries.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban had claimed responsibility for the incident and said it was retaliation by one of their fighters for the Quran burning. News about the burning of the Muslim holy books at the Parwan Detention Facility came just weeks after video surfaced of Marines urinating on Taliban corpses.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Afghans had identified Saboor as the shooter at the time, but he had fled to Bamiyan province where he was arrested Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicki sends us a link to Stars &#038; Stripes which reports the arrest of Abdul Saboor &hellip; <a title=\"Afghan arrested for 2012 murder of 2 Americans\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65346\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Afghan arrested for 2012 murder of 2 Americans<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65346","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\/65346","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=65346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/65347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}