{"id":194055,"date":"2008-10-28T23:18:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-29T04:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/28\/look-for-a-blowup-in-mosul\/"},"modified":"2008-10-28T23:18:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-29T04:18:00","slug":"look-for-a-blowup-in-mosul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/28\/look-for-a-blowup-in-mosul\/","title":{"rendered":"Look for a Blowup in Mosul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that Nouri al Maliki is looking at enforcing his Shia vision of Iraq on the city of Mosul, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/10\/28\/world\/middleeast\/28mosul.html\">the Kurds living there are not amused<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color:#000099;\">The Shiite-led government of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki is squeezing out Kurdish units of the Iraqi Army from Mosul, sending the national police and army from Baghdad and trying to forge alliances with Sunni Arab hard-liners in the province, who have deep-seated feuds with the Kurdistan Regional Government led by Massoud Barzani.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It looks like the US military will take no actions if a conflict breaks out.<\/p>\n<p>Iraq, the gift that just keeps giving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that Nouri al Maliki is looking at enforcing his Shia vision of Iraq on the city of Mosul, and the Kurds living there are not amused: The Shiite-led government of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki is squeezing out Kurdish units of the Iraqi Army from Mosul, sending the national police and army from &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[981,1063],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war","category-iraq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194055"}],"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=194055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}