{"id":43,"date":"2004-08-20T10:44:37","date_gmt":"2004-08-20T15:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/?p=43"},"modified":"2004-08-20T10:44:37","modified_gmt":"2004-08-20T15:44:37","slug":"imam-ali-shrine-secured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/2004\/08\/20\/imam-ali-shrine-secured\/","title":{"rendered":"Imam Ali shrine secured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IRAQ THE MODEL has news on the <a href=\"http:\/\/iraqthemodel.blogspot.com\/archives\/2004_08_01_iraqthemodel_archive.html#109301121405283795\">situation in Najaf<\/a>.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nOmar references a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/3583772.stm\">BBC report<\/a> as well as news from Iraqi news outlets. In any event, this appears to be rather good news, though it&#8217;s disturbing that Sadr wasn&#8217;t found among the militants inside the compound.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Well, &#8220;secured&#8221; is probably too strong a term; according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/middle_east\/3583772.stm\">followup report<\/a> by the BBC, the militants haven&#8217;t yet left the shrine. At least it&#8217;s progress, though. US operations in Najaf are &#8220;all defensive operations right now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>MORE: Definitely not secured. Previous reports are <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/3583772.stm\">contradicted<\/a> by both Iraq&#8217;s National Security Advisor, Mouwaffaq al-Rubaie, and an aide to Sadr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IRAQ THE MODEL has news on the situation in Najaf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iraq-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p706FH-H","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}