{"id":10383,"date":"2016-01-02T19:46:15","date_gmt":"2016-01-03T01:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=10383"},"modified":"2016-01-02T19:46:15","modified_gmt":"2016-01-03T01:46:15","slug":"bad-ass-of-the-week-he-escaped-an-isis-prison-and-has-a-message-for-bho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2016\/01\/02\/bad-ass-of-the-week-he-escaped-an-isis-prison-and-has-a-message-for-bho\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad-Ass of the Week: He Escaped an ISIS Prison and Has a Message for BHO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10384\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/01\/badass.jpg?w=620\" alt=\"badass\" width=\"620\" height=\"267\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With all the publicity ISIS gets, there aren\u2019t many first-hand accounts from people they\u2019ve taken\u00a0prisoner\u00a0escaping and living to tell the tale.<\/p>\n<p>Through Hamody Jasim, a former Sergeant Major\u00a0in the Iraqi military, Independent Journal was given\u00a0a rare opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>Jasim, the author of the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theterroristwhisperer.com\/#!books\/cnec\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Terrorist Whisperer<\/a><\/em>, connected us with\u00a0Master Sergeant\u00a0Karam Saad, whom he served with during the Iraq War:<\/p>\n<p>While Jasim was able to make it out in 2008, thanks to invaluable assistance with U.S.\u00a0intelligence operations, Saad stayed behind. ISIS would take him prisoner six years later.<\/p>\n<p>Saad shared his gripping\u00a0story\u00a0with Independent Journal.<\/p>\n<h3>To start things off, he\u00a0brought us back to the day he was captured:<\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt was June 10th 2014, and I needed to get some intelligence to Baghdad. At the time, I was keeping a low profile in Mosul, my hometown, which ISIS had just captured \u2013 and still runs today.<\/p>\n<p>They were killing people, taking them prisoner, they were very thorough.\u00a0As I was switching from my uncle\u2019s house to my aunt\u2019s around 11pm at night, ISIS caught me.<\/p>\n<p>They had a roster of people in the Iraqi military, and asked if I was still loyal to Iraq\u2026\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the Remainder at<strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ijreview.com\/2016\/01\/500716-this-badass-escaped-an-isis-prison-and-he-has-a-message-for-obama-about-his-bullsh-strategy\/\">IJ Review<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all the publicity ISIS gets, there aren\u2019t many first-hand accounts from people they\u2019ve taken\u00a0prisoner\u00a0escaping and living to tell the tale. Through Hamody Jasim, a former Sergeant Major\u00a0in the Iraqi military, Independent Journal was given\u00a0a rare opportunity. Jasim, the author of the Terrorist Whisperer, connected us with\u00a0Master Sergeant\u00a0Karam Saad, whom he served with during the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2280,1704,13,74,3172,2413,2726,2990,2470,272],"tags":[3589,3590,3591,1066,1083],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10383"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}