{"id":567,"date":"2004-10-19T01:57:46","date_gmt":"2004-10-19T06:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=567"},"modified":"2005-01-14T00:48:24","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T05:48:24","slug":"terrorist_relea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/19\/terrorist_relea\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrorist released from Gitmo returns to crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><A href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/3745962.stm\">Abdullah Mehsud<\/A>,&nbsp;a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner released by the U.S., turned right around and <A href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/US\/10\/18\/detainee.backsliders.ap\/index.html\">kidnapped two Chinese engineers<\/A> in Pakistan:<\/P>\n<BLOCKQUOTE>The former prisoners include Abdullah Mehsud, accused by Pakistani authorities of overseeing the recent kidnapping of two Chinese engineers, one of whom was killed. On Friday, Pakistani soldiers began a massive search for Mehsud, 28, who returned to Pakistan in March after about two years&#8217; detention at Guantanamo. Pakistan officials said he has forged ties with al Qaeda since then.<\/BLOCKQUOTE>\n<P>This blunder reminds me of the 1999 incident when India released three Kashmiri militants in exchange for hostages on a hijacked Indian Airlines jet, IC-814. One of the men released, Maulana Masood Azhar, then <A href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/2575199.stm\">masterminded the 2001 attack<\/A> on the Indian Parliament which brought India and Pakistan to the brink of war.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abdullah Mehsud,&nbsp;a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner released by the U.S., turned right around and kidnapped two Chinese engineers in Pakistan: The former prisoners include Abdullah Mehsud, accused by Pakistani authorities of overseeing the recent kidnapping of two Chinese engineers, one &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/19\/terrorist_relea\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}