{"id":197283,"date":"2008-02-17T19:33:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-18T00:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/17\/will-contractors-lose-iraq-immunity-time\/"},"modified":"2008-02-17T19:33:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-18T00:33:00","slug":"will-contractors-lose-iraq-immunity-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/17\/will-contractors-lose-iraq-immunity-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Contractors Lose Iraq Immunity? &#8211; TIME"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it appears that the US and Iraq are in the process of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/nation\/article\/0,8599,1712938,00.html\">renegociating their security agreements<\/a>, and the Iraqis consider the removal of immunity for contractors to be non-negotiable.<\/p>\n<p>I think that this is the first time that the representatives of the Iraqi government are behaving in a way that is both beneficial to, and supported by its citizens regardless of ethnicity.<\/p>\n<p>Good for them.  As for the mercenaries, the rules in a foreign country are that if you do the crime, you do the time, in that country&#8217;s jails.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it appears that the US and Iraq are in the process of renegociating their security agreements, and the Iraqis consider the removal of immunity for contractors to be non-negotiable. I think that this is the first time that the representatives of the Iraqi government are behaving in a way that is both beneficial to, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[964,1063,1179,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-relations","category-iraq","category-mercenaries","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197283"}],"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=197283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}