{"id":19510,"date":"2011-04-22T11:22:43","date_gmt":"2011-04-22T17:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=19510"},"modified":"2011-04-22T11:22:43","modified_gmt":"2011-04-22T17:22:43","slug":"the-jack-bauer-medal-with-chuck-norris-clusters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=19510","title":{"rendered":"The Jack Bauer Medal With Chuck Norris Clusters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unarmed British soldier <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfoxny.com\/dpp\/news\/international\/unarmed-british-soldier-captures-taliban-commander-20110416-ncx\">captures Taliban leader and bombmaker by ripping him off a passing motorcycle <\/a>and beating him down:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Private Lee Stephens, from Solihull, central England, gave chase to the insurgent before jumping out of his tank and grabbing him from a speeding motorbike as he made his getaway, close to the town of Gereshk, southern Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Private Stephens said that he &#8220;goose necked&#8221; the man, grabbing him around the neck and dragging him towards his vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I jumped out off the wagon and I grabbed the geezer,&#8221; Private Stephens said. &#8220;It was one left, two right fists. That was it. No weapons, just my hands.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The captured man turned out to be a bomb maker and the highest ranking Taliban captured by regular British forces.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I hope the Minneapolis Police hire the guy and put him on downtown skateboard patrol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unarmed British soldier captures Taliban leader and bombmaker by ripping him off a passing motorcycle and beating him down: Private Lee Stephens, from Solihull, central England, gave chase to the insurgent before jumping out of his tank and grabbing him from a speeding motorbike as he made his getaway, close to the town of Gereshk, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19511,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19510\/revisions\/19511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}