{"id":199790,"date":"2007-06-26T19:29:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-27T00:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/06\/26\/iraqi-ally-takes-money-and-runs\/"},"modified":"2007-06-26T19:29:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-27T00:29:00","slug":"iraqi-ally-takes-money-and-runs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/06\/26\/iraqi-ally-takes-money-and-runs\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi Ally Takes Money and Runs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of Abu Aardvark.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/abuaardvark.typepad.com\/abuaardvark\/2007\/06\/anbar_salvation.html\">Abu Aardvark: Anbar Salvation Council head skips town?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This story from al-Malaf is currently the talk of the forums:  Sitar Abu Risha, head of the Anbar Salvation Council, has allegedly fled Iraq with $75 million that the Americans had given him to fight al-Qaeda.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article is in Arabic, which I cannot read, but it matches my cynicism. <\/p>\n<p>We can&#8217;t even f&amp;^%ing bribe people competently.<\/p>\n<p>What a mess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of Abu Aardvark. Abu Aardvark: Anbar Salvation Council head skips town? This story from al-Malaf is currently the talk of the forums: Sitar Abu Risha, head of the Anbar Salvation Council, has allegedly fled Iraq with $75 million that the Americans had given him to fight al-Qaeda. The article is in Arabic, which I &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1063,982,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-iraq","category-stupid","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199790"}],"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=199790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}