{"id":790,"date":"2005-05-05T21:50:03","date_gmt":"2005-05-06T02:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=790"},"modified":"2005-05-05T21:56:16","modified_gmt":"2005-05-06T02:56:16","slug":"afghanistan-the-bad-the-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=790","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan:  the Bad, the Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/05\/06\/international\/asia\/06afghanistan.html\">Afghan Rebels Step Up Attacks, Killing 9 Near Pakistani Border<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nine Afghan soldiers were killed and three were wounded in an ambush Thursday in southern Afghanistan, in the most deadly single attack by rebels against the newly trained Afghan National Army, a military spokesman said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/articleshow\/1100220.cms\">US forces kill 64 Taliban militants<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the bloodiest fighting in Afghanistan in nine months, the US and government forces killed 64 Taliban-led militants, the US military said on Thursday; nine Afghan troops and a policeman were also killed.<\/p>\n<p>Seven US soldiers were wounded in the fighting, which began on Tuesday. American warplanes and helicopters pounded bands of militants in clashes in Zabul and Kandahar.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That cannot be considered a Taliban success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghan Rebels Step Up Attacks, Killing 9 Near Pakistani Border Nine Afghan soldiers were killed and three were wounded in an ambush Thursday in southern Afghanistan, in the most deadly single attack by rebels against the newly trained Afghan National Army, a military spokesman said. US forces kill 64 Taliban militants In the bloodiest fighting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,1,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-central-asia","category-general","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}