{"id":196346,"date":"2008-05-05T16:48:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-05T21:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/05\/iraq-with-an-iran-provocation-extra\/"},"modified":"2008-05-05T16:48:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-05T21:48:00","slug":"iraq-with-an-iran-provocation-extra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/05\/iraq-with-an-iran-provocation-extra\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq, with an Iran Provocation Extra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>4 Marines died today, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/05\/05\/world\/middleeast\/05iraq.html?_r=3&amp;hp&amp;oref=slogin&amp;oref=login&amp;oref=slogin\">Hiro Ibrahim Ahmed, the wife of President Jalal Talabani was the target of an assassination attempt<\/a>, a roadside bomb targeting her as she went to cultural festival.<\/p>\n<p>Note that this was in Baghdad, not Kurdistan.<\/p>\n<p>I would also point to this story describing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/05\/04\/AR2008050401736.html\">a pretty massive buildup at the Al Kut air base<\/a>, which is just 35 miles from the Iranian border.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t see this as anything but a deliberate provocation, or a prelude to an attack on Iran.<\/p>\n<p>I think that Bush may attack Iran out of a petulant need to leave something else on his successor&#8217;s plate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4 Marines died today, and Hiro Ibrahim Ahmed, the wife of President Jalal Talabani was the target of an assassination attempt, a roadside bomb targeting her as she went to cultural festival. Note that this was in Baghdad, not Kurdistan. I would also point to this story describing a pretty massive buildup at the Al &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[981,964,1034,1063],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war","category-foreign-relations","category-iran","category-iraq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196346"}],"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=196346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}