{"id":949910,"date":"2023-01-08T19:39:42","date_gmt":"2023-01-08T19:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=4491de091323df05df38c70d01ae244a"},"modified":"2023-01-08T19:39:42","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T19:39:42","slug":"cia-backed-units-killed-hundreds-of-afghan-civilians-in-brutal-night-raids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/01\/08\/cia-backed-units-killed-hundreds-of-afghan-civilians-in-brutal-night-raids\/","title":{"rendered":"CIA-Backed Units Killed Hundreds of Afghan Civilians in Brutal Night Raids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This story was originally published by ProPublica. In 2019, reporter Lynzy Billing returned to Afghanistan to research the murders of her mother and sister nearly 30 years earlier. Instead, in the country&rsquo;s remote reaches, she stumbled upon the CIA-backed Zero Units, who conducted night raids &mdash; quick, brutal operations designed to have resounding psychological impacts while ostensibly removing...<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/cia-backed-units-killed-hundreds-of-afghan-civilians-in-brutal-night-raids\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/cia-backed-units-killed-hundreds-of-afghan-civilians-in-brutal-night-raids\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Zero Units&#8221; backed by the U.S. made virtually no effort to distinguish noncombatants and killed with total impunity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25626,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186,6658,130,13422,4,55928,55371],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949910"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25626"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=949910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":949911,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949910\/revisions\/949911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}