{"id":13995,"date":"2012-02-07T11:39:38","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T19:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=13995"},"modified":"2012-02-07T12:18:01","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T20:18:01","slug":"ali-saleh-lapping-it-up-in-new-york-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/07\/ali-saleh-lapping-it-up-in-new-york-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Ali Saleh Lapping It Up in New York City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Yorkers, especially Yemeni\u00a0\u00e9migr\u00e9s, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/02\/06\/nyregion\/manhattan-protesters-jeer-ali-abdullah-saleh-yemens-president.html\">have been protesting outside the lavish Ritz Carlton hotel outside Central Park where &#8220;former&#8221; Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh is staying<\/a>. After being granted immunity for the crimes he committed against the Yemeni people while on the U.S. payroll, President Obama <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/23\/giving-refuge-to-our-criminal-tyrant-ali-saleh\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AWCBlog+%28Antiwar.com+Blog%29\">welcomed this murderous tyrant into America &#8220;to seek medical treatment,<\/a>&#8221; explained the propaganda.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13996\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/07\/ali-saleh-lapping-it-up-in-new-york-city\/saleh-popup\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13996\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13996\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13996\" title=\"AP photo, via New York Times\" src=\"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/saleh-popup-300x279.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/saleh-popup-300x279.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/saleh-popup.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13996\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">AP photo, via New York Times<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Interestingly, at least one of these protesters were arrested by New York police for throwing a shoe at Saleh as he waltzed out of the Ritz in his expensive, oh-so-Madison-Avenue attire. One man has the blood of hundreds of innocent people on his hands, the other threw a shoe that &#8220;almost hit&#8221; that mass murderer (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8o4W06CQbcw\">very reminiscent, isn&#8217;t it?<\/a>). Clearly, <em>one<\/em> of them had to be arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Funny, he looks fine to me. And he is most certainly not in the hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Yorkers, especially Yemeni\u00a0\u00e9migr\u00e9s, have been protesting outside the lavish Ritz Carlton hotel outside Central Park where &#8220;former&#8221; Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh is staying. After being granted immunity for the crimes he committed against the Yemeni people while on the U.S. payroll, President Obama welcomed this murderous tyrant into America &#8220;to seek medical treatment,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-13995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13995"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14000,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13995\/revisions\/14000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13995"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=13995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}