{"id":652856,"date":"2010-02-03T10:01:25","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T15:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=75609"},"modified":"2010-02-03T10:01:25","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T15:01:25","slug":"u-s-soldiers-killed-in-uh-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/652856","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Soldiers Killed in, Uh, Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/04\/world\/asia\/04pstan.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\">Unclear why they were there<\/a> as yet; according to the U.S. embassy in Islamabad they were helping train the Pakistanis in counterinsurgency. But there&#8217;s this:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The American soldiers, who may have been part of a training unit, were en route to inspect a proposed site for small-scale development projects that were to be undertaken by the Frontier Corps, a paramilitary force that the American Army has been training, a senior official in the North-West Frontier Province said. &#8230;<span id=\"more-75609\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>That American soldiers were involved in development assistance had not been previously known.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Given the sensitivities in Pakistan to a U.S. troop presence, how smart is it to be using soldiers for development work and not, say, civilian development experts? Of course, that&#8217;s assuming the embassy&#8217;s story is true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unclear why they were there as yet; according to the U.S. embassy in Islamabad they were helping train the Pakistanis in counterinsurgency. But there&#8217;s this: The American soldiers, who may have been part of a training unit, were en route to inspect a proposed site for small-scale development projects that were to be undertaken by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2762,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2JPW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2762"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}