{"id":3067,"date":"2023-01-01T05:16:06","date_gmt":"2023-01-01T11:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=3067"},"modified":"2023-03-14T03:06:01","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T08:06:01","slug":"afghan-war-orphan-remains-with-marine-accused-of-abduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=3067","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Afghan war orphan remains with Marine accused of abduction<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Afghan woman ran down the street towards her friend\u2019s apartment as soon as she heard the news: the White House had publicly weighed in on her family\u2019s case.<br \/>\nSurely her child, who she says was abducted by a U.S. Marine more than a year ago, would now be returned, she thought. She was so excited that it was only after she\u2019d arrived that she realized she wasn\u2019t wearing any shoes.<br \/>\n\u201cWe thought within one week she\u2019d be back to us,\u201d the woman told The Associated Press.<br \/>\nYet two months after\u00a0an AP report\u00a0on the high-stakes legal fight over the child raised alarms at the highest levels of government, from the White House to the Taliban, the baby remains with U.S. Marine Corps Major Joshua Mast and his family. The Masts claim in court documents that they legally adopted the child and that the Afghan couple\u2019s accusations are \u201coutrageous\u201d and \u201cunmerited.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cWe are all concerned with the well being of this child who is at the heart of this matter,\u201d said White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre after the AP detailed the child\u2019s plight in October.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/6899162.html\">Apnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Afghan woman ran down the street towards her friend\u2019s apartment as soon as she heard the news: the White House had publicly weighed in on her family\u2019s case. Surely her child, who she says was abducted by a U.S. Marine more than a year ago, would now be returned, she thought. She was so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3068,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1251,2862,3282,3281,1385],"class_list":["post-3067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-afghanistan","tag-kidnapping","tag-marines","tag-orphans","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3067"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7445,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3067\/revisions\/7445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}