{"id":198983,"date":"2007-09-20T23:05:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-21T04:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/20\/blackwater-broke-a-guy-out-of-prison\/"},"modified":"2007-09-20T23:05:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-21T04:05:00","slug":"blackwater-broke-a-guy-out-of-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/20\/blackwater-broke-a-guy-out-of-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackwater Broke a Guy Out of Prison?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it turns out that the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/homepage\/story\/19838.html\">Iraqi government has had repeated problems with Blackwater&#8217;s actions<\/a>, with a number of incidents, including <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\"><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">breaking Iraqi Electricity Minister Ahyam al Samarrai<\/span><\/span> out of a Green Zone jail in December. Samarrai had been awaiting sentencing on charges that he had embezzled $2.5 <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">billion<\/span> that was intended to rebuild Iraq&#8217;s decrepit electricity grid.<\/p>\n<p>This is getting out of hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it turns out that theIraqi government has had repeated problems with Blackwater&#8217;s actions, with a number of incidents, including breaking Iraqi Electricity Minister Ahyam al Samarrai out of a Green Zone jail in December. Samarrai had been awaiting sentencing on charges that he had embezzled $2.5 billion that was intended to rebuild Iraq&#8217;s decrepit &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1063,1179,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-iraq","category-mercenaries","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198983"}],"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=198983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}