{"id":75907,"date":"2017-11-11T09:01:40","date_gmt":"2017-11-11T14:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=75907"},"modified":"2017-11-11T09:01:40","modified_gmt":"2017-11-11T14:01:40","slug":"sgt-ladavid-johnson-may-have-been-executed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=75907","title":{"rendered":"SGT LaDavid Johnson may have been executed"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Fox News reports that Sergeant LaDavid Johnson, one of the four victims of an ambush in Niger last month may have been executed by the insurgents who attacked the patrol he was accompanying. A local man says that his kids found the body which had his arms bound behind him and that back of his head had a huge wound;<\/p>\n

\u201cHis two arms were tied behind his back,\u201d Adamou Boubacar, 23, a farmer, told the paper in a phone interview. Another witness told the paper separately that the back of Johnson’s head \u201cwas a mess, as if they had hit him with something hard, like a hammer. They took his shoes. He was wearing only socks.\u201d<\/p>\n

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An unnamed U.S. military official told the paper that Johnson\u2019s hands were not tied when Americans received his body, but the body was battered. The official warned about rushing to judgement until the investigations are completed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From Stars & Stripes<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Boubacar, a resident of Tongo Tongo, said in a phone interview that he informed the village’s chief after seeing Johnson’s body. “His two arms were tied behind his back,” he said. The chief called Nigerien military forces, who dispatched troops to retrieve Johnson’s remains.<\/p>\n

The village chief of Tongo Tongo, Mounkaila Alassane, confirmed the account in a separate phone interview.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Boubacar said that Johnson’s remains were found two days after the ambush, which explains why his death wasn’t reported at the same time as the other three servicemen. The FBI and military investigators are on the scene to sort through the evidence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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