{"id":670,"date":"2004-12-31T08:32:21","date_gmt":"2004-12-31T08:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:08:56","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:08:56","slug":"the_coalition_o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=670","title":{"rendered":"The Coalition Of The Murderous And Suicidal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s interesting that no one in the blogs has picked up on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/12\/29\/international\/middleeast\/29cnd-iraq.html?oref=login\" target=\"browser\">this tidbit from the New York Times<\/a> on the Baghdad booby-trap. Take a look at these quotes and see if you can pick out the interesting fact.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>In the Baghdad blast on Tuesday night, the American military said its experts believed that some 1,750 pounds of explosives were used.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe force of the blast lifted one police car into the air and slammed it into a nearby home, said Marwan Yousif, a laborer, who lives in the neighborhood. &#8220;I saw many bodies scattered on the ground,&#8221; Mr. Yousif said. Neighbors had grown suspicious of the occupants of the house, who had many late-night visitors, he added.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe attackers used two subterfuges to set the trap for the police, Iraqi officials said. A <b>Sudanese<\/b> who lived in the house began firing a semi-automatic weapon at people in the neighborhood, leading neighbors to call police to the scene, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry said. &#8220;He was on the roof shooting at people randomly,&#8221; the spokesman said.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Interior Ministry spokesman said that just as police approached the home, &#8220;the terrorists exploded the house, which was loaded with a giant amount of explosives.&#8221; The initial police investigation has found evidence that car bombs were being manufactured in the house, the Iraqi major said. He said the police regretted not detaining the two bearded men, who officials now believe were part of the trap. The police recovered remains of the <b>Sudanese<\/b> who lived at the house, he added.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Anything leap to your attention?<\/p>\n<p>We are fighting a regional enemy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The nationality of a key player in a recent attack in Baghdad is mentioned &#8230; he wasn&#8217;t Iraqi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}