{"id":2420,"date":"2006-04-25T09:12:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-25T13:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=2420"},"modified":"2006-04-25T09:12:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-25T13:12:00","slug":"kirkuk-a-go-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2006\/04\/25\/09\/12\/kirkuk-a-go-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirkuk A Go Go"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/04\/24\/AR2006042401560.html\">Hundreds of Shiite Muslim militiamen have deployed in recent weeks to [Kirkuk] &#8212; widely considered the most likely flash point for an Iraqi civil war &#8212; vowing to fight any attempt to shift control over Kirkuk to the Kurdish-governed north &#8230; The Mahdi Army, led by firebrand cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, has sent at least two companies, each with about 120 fighters, according to Thomas Wise, political counselor for the U.S. Embassy&#8217;s Kirkuk regional office, which has been tracking militia activity. The Badr Organization, the armed wing of Iraq&#8217;s largest Shiite political party, has also boosted its presence and opened several offices across the region.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of Shiite Muslim militiamen have deployed in recent weeks to [Kirkuk] &#8212; widely considered the most likely flash point for an Iraqi civil war &#8212; vowing to fight any attempt to shift control&#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-2420","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\/2420","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=2420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}