{"id":195897,"date":"2008-06-06T18:08:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-06T23:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/06\/and-in-the-corruption-cesspool-that-is-the-war-on-terror\/"},"modified":"2008-06-06T18:08:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-06T23:08:00","slug":"and-in-the-corruption-cesspool-that-is-the-war-on-terror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/06\/and-in-the-corruption-cesspool-that-is-the-war-on-terror\/","title":{"rendered":"And In the Corruption Cesspool That is the War on Terror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi financier Gaith Pharaon, &#8220;an FBI fugitive indicted in both the BCCI and CENTRUST case&#8221;, <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Blotter\/story?id=4996285&amp;page=1\">was awarded a $80 million contract for Jet fuel<\/a> to Bagram air base in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Interestingly, Pharaon was also an investor in President George W. Bush&#8217;s first business venture, Arbusto Energy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Funny how that all works out, isn&#8217;t it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi financier Gaith Pharaon, &#8220;an FBI fugitive indicted in both the BCCI and CENTRUST case&#8221;, was awarded a $80 million contract for Jet fuel to Bagram air base in Afghanistan. Interestingly, Pharaon was also an investor in President George W. Bush&#8217;s first business venture, Arbusto Energy. Funny how that all works out, isn&#8217;t it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1153,970],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-corruption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195897"}],"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=195897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}