{"id":67858,"date":"2016-09-08T08:53:24","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T12:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=67858"},"modified":"2016-09-08T09:55:14","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T13:55:14","slug":"khalimov-becomes-isis-minister-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=67858","title":{"rendered":"Khalimov becomes ISIS&#8217; Minister of War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=60110\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-60110\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Gulmurod-Khalimov-444x333.jpg?resize=444%2C333\" alt=\"Gulmurod Khalimov\" width=\"444\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-60110\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Gulmurod-Khalimov.jpg?resize=444%2C333&amp;ssl=1 444w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Gulmurod-Khalimov.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Gulmurod-Khalimov.jpg?resize=400%2C300&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Gulmurod-Khalimov.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 444px) 100vw, 444px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=60109\">Last year<\/a> we mentioned Colonel Gulmurod Khalimov, the commander of Tajikistan\u2019s special forces who defected to ISIS. According to him, he was trained by US Special Forces to be a sniper before his defection. According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/world\/middle-east\/ustrained-police-sniper-colonel-gulmurod-khalimov-made-isis-minister-of-war\/news-story\/5469ea35513f9c8a4eba5cf553d5171c\">Australian News<\/a>, Khalimov has been named as the Minister of War for the Islamic State;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe Tajik has been appointed as the successor to the dead terrorist Tarhan Batirashvili who (was) also known as Abu Omar al-Shishani (Omar the Chechen)\u201d, the Iraqi News reported, citing an unnamed Iraqi security source.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Tajik Golmurud Khalimov was elected as the first military commander in ISIS. The organisation did not announce it officially because it fears that once mentioned, there might be a series of air strikes against them.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the article, Khalimov was trained by the State Department;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a chilling 10-minute address, Khalimov revealed the extent of his experience, which included participating in five counter-terrorism training courses in the US and Tajikstan between 2003 and 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The courses were organised by the US State Department\u2019s Diplomatic Security\/Anti-Terrorism Assistance program. Part of the training, according to the Tajik commander, was conducted by the private American military consultancy previously known as Blackwater.<\/p>\n<p>Khalimov also revealed in the video that he had taken part in numerous secret training sessions in Russia during his reign as police chief.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, that was money well-spent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year we mentioned Colonel Gulmurod Khalimov, the commander of Tajikistan\u2019s special forces who defected to ISIS. According to him, he was trained by US Special Forces to be a sniper before his defection. According to the Australian News, Khalimov has been named as the Minister of War for the Islamic State; \u201cThe Tajik has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-terror-war"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Gulmurod-Khalimov.jpg?fit=600%2C450&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-hEu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}