{"id":197913,"date":"2008-01-02T18:06:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-02T23:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/02\/the-surge-is-working\/"},"modified":"2008-01-02T18:06:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-02T23:06:00","slug":"the-surge-is-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/02\/the-surge-is-working\/","title":{"rendered":"The Surge is Working!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2008\/0102\/p99s01-duts.html\">string of suicide bombings in has hit Iraq<\/a>: (see also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/01\/02\/world\/middleeast\/02iraq.html?ex=1356930000&amp;en=92ae27dc188a3210&amp;ei=5090&amp;partner=rssuserland&amp;emc=rss&amp;pagewanted=all\">here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On Tuesday, a suicide bombing killed 36 and wounded at least 35 others in Baghdad&#8217;s Zayouna (the worst attack since August)<\/li>\n<li>A female suicide bomber attacked a checkpoint of neighbourhood patrol volunteers Wednesday morning in Baquba, the capital of Diyala province, reports Reuters. The attack killed 10 <\/li>\n<li>The abduction and killing of five relatives on Tuesday morning in Jalawla,  one of the five killed was a policeman.<\/li>\n<li>fighters from Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia kidnapped a farmer and killed his son in Dhuluiya, and stole 200 of the farmer\u2019s sheep.  (not going with the obvious comment)<\/li>\n<li>The severed head of a member of an called Awakening Council, the Sunni Militias created and armed by David Petraeus was found north of Muqdadiya.<\/li>\n<li>Gunmen killed three people in a village 40 miles south of Kirkuk.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We need to get out sooner, rather than later.  We are doing no good there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A string of suicide bombings in has hit Iraq: (see also here) On Tuesday, a suicide bombing killed 36 and wounded at least 35 others in Baghdad&#8217;s Zayouna (the worst attack since August) A female suicide bomber attacked a checkpoint of neighbourhood patrol volunteers Wednesday morning in Baquba, the capital of Diyala province, reports Reuters. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1063,1006,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iraq","category-military","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197913"}],"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=197913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}