AN AMERICAN soldier is in custody after allegedly breaking into a number of homes in a village near Kandahar early Sunday and killing 16 people, nine of them children.Coming after a wave of violence against U.S. and NATO troops, this may further inflame the population against coalition forces. It seems to us that continued occupation of Afghanistan serves no real purpose.<\/p>\n
Also: McCain stumps for war against Syria; Panetta says the president only needs “international permission” to attack; Pentagon gives Boeing $80 million to build a better MOP<\/a> to clean out Iran’s nuclear bunkers; State Department gives Camp Liberty in Iraq to MEK — which is on its list of foreign terror organizations<\/a>; Greece officially defaults; SPLC claims 755% growth in American militias since Obama took office (link to report PDF file<\/a>); and unexplained explosion caught on Phoenix TV traffic report<\/a>.<\/p>\n You can find links to the stories we discuss at our P.I.D. News page at Facebook<\/a> (although the new format makes it a little more difficult to sort through them).<\/p>\n Please visit the P.I.D. Radio Facebook page<\/a>, and don\u2019t forget the great Christian podcasters at the Revelations Radio Network<\/a>.<\/p>\n Click the arrow on the player below to listen now, or right-click (control-click if you have a Mac) the “download” link to save the mp3 file to your hard drive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" AN AMERICAN soldier is in custody after allegedly breaking into a number of homes in a village near Kandahar early Sunday and killing 16 people, nine of them children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[63,590,14,551,801,11,17,799,811,800,78,7],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pidradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/afghankilling.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3FLs6-ux","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pidradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pidradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pidradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pidradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pidradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pidradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pidradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pidradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pidradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pidradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}