{"id":2350,"date":"2005-12-06T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-06T12:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=2350"},"modified":"2005-12-06T08:45:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-06T12:45:00","slug":"to-protect-and-serve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2005\/12\/06\/08\/45\/to-protect-and-serve\/","title":{"rendered":"To Protect and Serve"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-death29nov29,0,7693413,print.story?coll=la-home-headlines\">The [Sadr] Al Mahdi army has a heavy presence in the regular police force, U.S. and Iraqi authorities said. One high-ranking U.S. military officer estimated that up to 90% of the 35,000 police officers working in northeast Baghdad were affiliated with Al Mahdi &#8230; &#8220;The Mahdi army&#8217;s got the Iraqi police and Badr&#8217;s got the commandos,&#8221; the high-ranking U.S. military officer said. &#8220;Everybody&#8217;s got their own death squads.&#8221;<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The [Sadr] Al Mahdi army has a heavy presence in the regular police force, U.S. and Iraqi authorities said. One high-ranking U.S. military officer estimated that up to 90% of the 35,000 police officers&#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-2350","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\/2350","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=2350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}