{"id":2705,"date":"2012-04-27T10:00:29","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T10:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/americainuniform\/?p=2705"},"modified":"2012-04-23T14:22:16","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T14:22:16","slug":"they-were-doing-their-jobs-not-sightseeing-when-they-were-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/americainuniform\/2012\/04\/they-were-doing-their-jobs-not-sightseeing-when-they-were-killed.html","title":{"rendered":"They Were Doing Their Jobs, Not “Sightseeing”, When They Were Killed"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Daily Mail gets it wrong, so very wrong.<\/p>\n

\u201cFour U.S. soldiers were killed by a suicide bomber today as they took pictures and went sightseeing in an Afghanistan park.<\/p>\n

\u201cWitnesses said the bomber walked up to the troops, who had been warned by locals ‘not to roam around the city’, screamed ‘Allahu Akbar’ and then detonated a suicide vest.<\/p>\n

Click here<\/strong><\/a> for the \u2018real\u2019 story.<\/p>\n

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