{"id":12503,"date":"2025-07-09T23:34:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T19:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/?p=12503"},"modified":"2025-07-09T23:34:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T19:04:15","slug":"former-cia-officer-taliban-leaders-should-be-shot-directly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/former-cia-officer-taliban-leaders-should-be-shot-directly\/","title":{"rendered":"Former CIA officer: Taliban leaders should be shot directly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12495\" src=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/saraadam.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Former CIA officer: Taliban leaders should be shot directly<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Sarah Adams, a former agent of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), has called for a military response to the Taliban leaders in response to the issuance of arrest warrants.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>On Wednesday, July 8, she wrote in a message on the social network X addressed to the Taliban leader Haibatullah Akhundzada and Abdul Hakim Haqqani, the head of the group&#8217;s Supreme Court: &#8220;Not just arrest, they should be shot directly.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Sarah Adams is a critic of the Taliban and the West&#8217;s appeasement policies towards the group. She has repeatedly warned that the Taliban have given terrorists safe haven and are a threat to global security.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>The International Criminal Court yesterday charged Taliban leaders with ordering or encouraging the commission of crimes against humanity, including gender-based violence, and issued arrest warrants for them.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former CIA officer: Taliban leaders should be shot directly Sarah Adams, a former agent of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), has called for a military response to the Taliban leaders in response to the issuance of arrest warrants. On Wednesday, July 8, she wrote in a message on the social network X addressed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12495,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12504,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12503\/revisions\/12504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}