{"id":7493,"date":"2014-02-06T20:48:50","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T18:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s8pmc.lt\/?p=7493"},"modified":"2014-02-06T21:21:57","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T19:21:57","slug":"us-military-sniffer-dog-captured-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/s8pmc.lt\/Lt\/about\/us-military-sniffer-dog-captured-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"(English) US military sniffer dog captured in Afghanistan (Taliban claim)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ICRiQJQ9YDw\" rel=\"shadowbox[sbpost-7493];player=swf;width=640;height=385;\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ICRiQJQ9YDw<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Fokin&#8217; hell&#8230;\u00a0US military sniffer dog captured in Afghanistan, claims Taliban.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I&#8217;m big heard about dogs. He looks like real captured warrior.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">He was fighting this war for his best friend. Not for\u00a0cause&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The\u00a0<a title=\"More from the Guardian on Taliban\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/taliban\">Taliban<\/a>\u00a0say they have captured an American military sniffer dog in<a title=\"More from the Guardian on Afghanistan\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/afghanistan\">Afghanistan<\/a>, and posted a video of the forlorn-looking animal in a\u00a0<a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/shahamat-movie.com\/\">video online.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bearded fighters, showing off weapons they say were also captured from US forces in eastern Laghman province just before Christmas, mill around the chocolate-brown dog.<\/p>\n<p>Glossier and better fed than most guard dogs kept in Afghan villages, it is wearing a complex harness similar to ones used by some Nato forces.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABalkhi\">A Taliban Twitter account<\/a>\u00a0shared video of the dog. An experienced dog handler who has worked in Afghanistan said it appeared to be a Belgian shepherd, a breed popular with soldiers because of its ability to work for hours without a break.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0theguardian.com<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fokin&#8217; hell&#8230;\u00a0US military sniffer dog captured in Afghanistan, claims Taliban. I&#8217;m big heard about dogs.&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/s8pmc.lt\/Lt\/about\/us-military-sniffer-dog-captured-in-afghanistan\/\">Read the post<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">(English) US military sniffer dog captured in Afghanistan (Taliban claim)<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,455],"tags":[929,1101,949,1102],"class_list":["post-7493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-about","category-video","tag-afghanistan","tag-dog","tag-taliban","tag-theguardian","excerpt","zoom","full-without-featured","even","excerpt-0"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/s8pmc.lt\/Lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/s8pmc.lt\/Lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/s8pmc.lt\/Lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/s8pmc.lt\/Lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/s8pmc.lt\/Lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/s8pmc.lt\/Lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/s8pmc.lt\/Lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/s8pmc.lt\/Lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/s8pmc.lt\/Lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/s8pmc.lt\/Lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}