{"id":1000,"date":"2004-07-04T10:25:06","date_gmt":"2004-07-04T14:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/07\/insurgent_amnesty\/"},"modified":"2004-07-04T10:25:06","modified_gmt":"2004-07-04T14:25:06","slug":"insurgent_amnesty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/07\/insurgent_amnesty\/","title":{"rendered":"Insurgent Amnesty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/WORLD\/meast\/07\/03\/iraq.amnesty.ap\/index.html\">this idea<\/a> gets any traction, we&#8217;ll soon see what Iraqi sovereignty really means:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Iraq&#8217;s prime minister, less than a week after taking power, may offer amnesty to insurgents and could extend it to those who killed American troops in an apparent bid to lure Saddam Hussein loyalists from their campaign of violence.<br \/>\nA spokesman for Iyad Allawi went as far as to suggest attacks on U.S. troops over the past year were legitimate acts of resistance &#8212; a sign of the new government&#8217;s desire to distance itself from the 14-month U.S.-led occupation of Iraq.<br \/>\n&#8220;If he (a guerrilla) was in opposition against the Americans, that will be justified because it was an occupation force,&#8221; the spokesman, Georges Sada, said Saturday. &#8220;We will give them freedom.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think this would go over very well with many of those who have been touting Iraqi freedom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/07\/insurgent_amnesty\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Insurgent Amnesty\"><p>If this idea gets any traction, we&#8217;ll soon see what Iraqi sovereignty really means: Iraq&#8217;s prime minister, less than a week after taking power, may offer amnesty to insurgents and could extend it to those who killed American troops in an apparent bid to lure Saddam Hussein loyalists from their campaign of violence. A spokesman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1000","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}