{"id":860,"date":"2002-02-12T19:29:00","date_gmt":"2002-02-12T23:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=860"},"modified":"2002-02-12T19:29:00","modified_gmt":"2002-02-12T23:29:00","slug":"mercenaries-going-cheap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2002\/02\/12\/19\/29\/mercenaries-going-cheap\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercenaries Going Cheap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/ac2\/wp-dyn\/A55268-2002Feb10?language=printer\">U.S. forces in Khost are recruiting 400 local fighters &#8212; at $50 apiece to begin &#8212; to help sort out the problems in this region. According to local officials, the fighters will be trained at a small camp of U.S. Special Forces and CIA operatives to comb through the mountains in search of al Qaeda members.<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p>So apparently, you can now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/ac2\/wp-dyn\/A55268-2002Feb10?language=printer\">hire mercenaries for $50<\/a>. I should get me some&#8230; that would gain me major respect in the Mission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. forces in Khost are recruiting 400 local fighters &#8212; at $50 apiece to begin &#8212; to help sort out the problems in this region. According to local officials, the fighters will be trained&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}