{"id":1554,"date":"2003-05-12T16:47:00","date_gmt":"2003-05-12T20:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1554"},"modified":"2003-05-12T16:47:00","modified_gmt":"2003-05-12T20:47:00","slug":"girls-gone-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2003\/05\/12\/16\/47\/girls-gone-wild\/","title":{"rendered":"Girls Gone Wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/story.html?StoryID=15803\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Saddam Hussein, despite all his ills, gave these women many of their rights three decades ago, making Iraq the relatively progressive oasis of women&#8217;s rights in a highly conservative and repressive region &#8230; &#8220;We love Saddam Hussein very much,&#8221; says Arwa, 23, who was a senior in chemical engineering at Baghdad University before it was trashed by looters. &#8220;He was kind. We were safe, even when there were wars. He gave opportunities to Iraqi women. Now every dream is broken.&#8221; &#8230; The concept of female terrorists is hardly a matter of idle rhetoric. As Arwa&#8217;s mother proudly notes, two female suicide bombers have already blown themselves up to kill American soldiers in Iraq, while another woman with a rocket-propelled grenade launcher destroyed an American tank in Nasiriyah &#8230; thousands of female students regularly trained with army units during their summer school holidays. There are female student militias outside Iraq, as well. &#8220;Kloot Saddam,&#8221; an economics major living in Amman, Jordan, vows to return to join the Iraqi resistance like the estimated 7,000 Iraqis who crossed the border during the U.S.-led bombing campaign. Originally from Basra, she first went to military training camps at age 12.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saddam Hussein, despite all his ills, gave these women many of their rights three decades ago, making Iraq the relatively progressive oasis of women&#8217;s rights in a highly conservative and repressive region &#8230; &#8220;We&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}