{"id":47279,"date":"2022-08-10T02:30:29","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T17:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/10\/the-us-let-him-go-free-release-of-terrorist-who-killed-unarmed-australian-soldiers-shows-contempt-for-ally-family-says"},"modified":"2022-08-10T02:30:29","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T17:30:29","slug":"the-us-let-him-go-free-release-of-terrorist-who-killed-unarmed-australian-soldiers-shows-contempt-for-ally-family-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47279","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The US let him go free\u2019: release of terrorist who killed unarmed Australian soldiers shows contempt for ally, family says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Father of one of three soldiers slain by Hekmatullah says Australia was \u2018sidelined\u2019 in deal between US and Taliban to release terrorist from prison<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u200b\u200bGet Guardian Australia\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2018\/may\/15\/the-guardian-app?CMP=cvau_sfl\">free news app<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/guardian-australia-morning-mail\/2014\/jun\/24\/-sp-guardian-australias-morning-mail-subscribe-by-email?CMP=cvau_sfl\"> morning email briefing<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/p>\n<p>The family of one of the Australian soldiers killed by rogue Afghan national army sergeant Hekmatullah says Australia was treated with contempt by its closest ally, the US, after it agreed to release the self-professed terrorist from prison.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/aug\/08\/i-will-continue-killing-foreigners-soldier-who-shot-dead-unarmed-australians-treated-as-returning-hero-by-taliban\">The Guardian revealed on Monday <\/a>that the former Afghan national army sergeant, and Taliban plant, Hekmatullah, is again at liberty, and housed under Taliban protection, in the former diplomatic quarter of the Afghan capital Kabul.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/guardian-australia-morning-mail\/2014\/jun\/24\/-sp-guardian-australias-morning-mail-subscribe-by-email?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/10\/the-us-let-him-go-free-release-of-terrorist-who-killed-unarmed-australian-soldiers-shows-contempt-for-ally-family-says\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Father of one of three soldiers slain by Hekmatullah says Australia was \u2018sidelined\u2019 in deal between US and Taliban to release terrorist from prison\u200b\u200bGet Guardian Australia\u2019s free news app, morning email briefing and daily news podcastThe fam&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":371,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,43,1585,44,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-australia-news","category-australian-military","category-taliban","category-us-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47279"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47284,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47279\/revisions\/47284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}