{"id":13,"date":"2012-05-14T04:46:16","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T04:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=13"},"modified":"2012-05-14T04:46:16","modified_gmt":"2012-05-14T04:46:16","slug":"ugandan-troops-capture-top-commander-in-konys-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/05\/14\/ugandan-troops-capture-top-commander-in-konys-army\/","title":{"rendered":"Ugandan Troops Capture Top Commander in Kony&#8217;s Army"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pixel.nymag.com\/imgs\/daily\/intel\/2012\/03\/08\/08-Kony.o.jpg\/a_146x97.jpg?w=525\"><\/p>\n<p>One of the<span> top three commanders<span><\/span><\/span> of the Joseph Kony-led Lord&#8217;s Resistance Army,\u00c2\u00a0<span><span>Caesar Achellam<\/span><\/span>, was captured by the Ugandan Army in the jungles of the Central African Republic after<span> a firefight with the U.S.-backed Ugandan troops on Saturday, <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052702304192704577401971913676972.html\">according<\/a> to a military official. <span>Achellam was a <span>major-general<span><span> <\/span><\/span>in the rebel ranks of the brutal LRA.<\/span> <\/span><span>&#8220;Achellam is alive, and we are expecting him at Entebbe airport today,&#8221; a spokesman for Uganda&#8217;s army said. <\/span><\/span>Aided by <span>100 U.S. military advisers, the army continues to hunt for Kony himself. The United Nations recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/international\/top_commander_of_joseph_kony_army_A5EWzydDQhyYAr5zZelz0I\">said<\/a> that Kony&#8217;s capture was imminent.<span>\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more posts by <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/author\/brett%20smiley\">Brett Smiley<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Filed Under:<br \/>\n          <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/news\/international-intrigue\" title=\"Read all posts tagged international intrigue\">international intrigue<\/a><br \/>\n            <\/strong>,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/news\/kony-2012\" title=\"Read all posts tagged kony 2012\">kony 2012<\/a><br \/>\n            ,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/news\/joseph-kony\" title=\"Read all posts tagged joseph kony\">joseph kony<\/a><br \/>\n            ,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/news\/uganda\" title=\"Read all posts tagged uganda\">uganda<\/a>\n            <\/p>\n<p>via Daily Intel <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intel\/2012\/05\/ugandan-troops-capture-top-lra-commander.html\">http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intel\/2012\/05\/ugandan-troops-capture-top-lra-commander.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the top three commanders of the Joseph Kony-led Lord&#8217;s Resistance Army,\u00c2\u00a0Caesar Achellam, was captured by the Ugandan Army in the jungles of the Central African Republic after a firefight with the U.S.-backed Ugandan troops on Saturday, according to a military official. Achellam was a major-general in the rebel ranks of the brutal LRA. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/05\/14\/ugandan-troops-capture-top-commander-in-konys-army\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ugandan Troops Capture Top Commander in Kony&#8217;s Army&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[1037,6],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-google-reader","tag-ifttt"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2skW4-d","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}