{"id":197332,"date":"2008-02-13T17:32:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-13T22:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/13\/hezbollah-leader-killed-in-explosion\/"},"modified":"2008-02-13T17:32:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-13T22:32:00","slug":"hezbollah-leader-killed-in-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/13\/hezbollah-leader-killed-in-explosion\/","title":{"rendered":"Hezbollah Leader Killed in Explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/WORLD\/meast\/02\/13\/hezbollah\/index.html\">Imad Mughniyeh was killed in a Damascus explosion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hezbollah, which translates to GOP in Arabic<sup>*<\/sup>, has claimed that the Israelis were responsible, though the Olmert government has denied responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>Considering this guy&#8217;s rap sheet, the barracks bombing in &#8217;83, plane hijackings, etc., I&#8217;m not heartbroken.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup>This is not really true.  It&#8217;s kind of the reverse almost true.  There are any number of people in the Republican party who have either directly, or indirectly claimed that it is the &#8220;party of God&#8221;, which <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">is<\/span> what Hezbollah means in Arabic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imad Mughniyeh was killed in a Damascus explosion. Hezbollah, which translates to GOP in Arabic*, has claimed that the Israelis were responsible, though the Olmert government has denied responsibility. Considering this guy&#8217;s rap sheet, the barracks bombing in &#8217;83, plane hijackings, etc., I&#8217;m not heartbroken. *This is not really true. It&#8217;s kind of the reverse &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[986,1076],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle-east","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197332"}],"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=197332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}