{"id":193358,"date":"2008-12-20T22:13:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-21T03:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/20\/the-coup-was-no-coup-and-the-purge-didnt-purge\/"},"modified":"2008-12-20T22:13:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-21T03:13:00","slug":"the-coup-was-no-coup-and-the-purge-didnt-purge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/20\/the-coup-was-no-coup-and-the-purge-didnt-purge\/","title":{"rendered":"The Coup Was No Coup, and the Purge Didn&#8217;t Purge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, it now appears that the 24 interior ministry officers arrested for either plotting a coup, or plotting to revive the Baath party <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/12\/20\/world\/middleeast\/20iraq.html?_r=1&amp;ref=world\">have been released<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I believe that <a href=\"http:\/\/lefarkins.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/failed-purge.html\">Robert Farley&#8217;s analysis<\/a> is spot on.<\/p>\n<p>There never was a coup or a Baath party plot, there was just a power grab by Nouri al Maliki, and when too many people called him out on this, he folded.<\/p>\n<p>Not sure what this means, though it will make the next round of elections in Iraq interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, it now appears that the 24 interior ministry officers arrested for either plotting a coup, or plotting to revive the Baath party have been released. I believe that Robert Farley&#8217;s analysis is spot on. There never was a coup or a Baath party plot, there was just a power grab by Nouri al Maliki, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1063,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iraq","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193358"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}