{"id":16390,"date":"2012-09-15T10:24:18","date_gmt":"2012-09-15T18:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=16390"},"modified":"2012-09-15T15:41:34","modified_gmt":"2012-09-15T23:41:34","slug":"did-us-marines-die-protecting-prince-harry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/15\/did-us-marines-die-protecting-prince-harry\/","title":{"rendered":"Did US Marines Die Protecting Prince Harry?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/asia\/afghanistan\/9544864\/British-troops-help-fight-off-Taliban-attack-on-Afghan-military-base-housing-Prince-Harry.html\">Two US Marines were killed<\/a> yesterday protecting a US-British base complex in Helmland Province of Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Prince Harry is currently assigned to the British portion of the base and serves as a helicopter pilot.  His presence at the base was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/uknews\/prince-harry\/9527771\/Prince-Harry-arrives-in-Afghanistan-at-start-of-four-month-tour-as-Apache-helicopter-pilot.html\">revealed last week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/asia\/afghanistan\/9545512\/Prince-Harry-targeted-in-fatal-Taliban-attack-on-impregnable-military-base.html\">Many believe<\/a> that Prince Harry was the target of the attack.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/communities\/ondeadline\/post\/2012\/09\/09\/prince-harry-taliban-afghanistan\/70000014\/1?csp=34news#.UFTFqlKZZBl\">The Taliban reportedly issued a statement<\/a> proclaiming Harry as a &#8220;high-value target.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tory MP Colonel Bob Stewart, a former commander of British troops in Bosnia, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ukpress\/article\/ALeqM5g8up5Fd7gfQqtFezQiDAIFfijyyw?docId=N0182721347658510444A\">said<\/a> he did not think the Prince should be pulled out of Afghanistan because of the Taliban. &#8220;To hell with them,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Harry wants to go there and our soldiers want him there. He should stay.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Did the two US Marines die to protect Prince Harry?  If this was, in fact, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/taliban-target-prince-harry-attack-u-s-marines-killed\">one of the reasons for the attack<\/a>, then the undeniable answer is yes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two US Marines were killed yesterday protecting a US-British base complex in Helmland Province of Afghanistan. Prince Harry is currently assigned to the British portion of the base and serves as a helicopter pilot. His presence at the base was revealed last week. Many believe that Prince Harry was the target of the attack. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-16390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16390"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16396,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16390\/revisions\/16396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16390"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=16390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}