{"id":1439,"date":"2004-11-10T03:20:44","date_gmt":"2004-11-10T10:20:44","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-11-10T03:20:44","modified_gmt":"2004-11-10T10:20:44","slug":"fallujah-a-ghost-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/10\/fallujah-a-ghost-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Fallujah a &#8220;ghost town&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2004\/1110\/p01s02-woiq.html\" target=\"_blank\">Scott Peterson of the Christian Science Monitor:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Despite the steady rumble of fighting, from frequent artillery and rocket explosions, to bursts of small arms fire across the city, US forces entered a veritable ghost town.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sanluisobispo.com\/mld\/sanluisobispo\/news\/world\/10139356.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Lt. Gen. Thomas Metz, commander of ground forces in Iraq and of the U.S. Army&#8217;s III Corps adds:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Speaking of al-Zarqawi, who is accused of beheading American and other hostages in grisly videotapes posted on the Internet, Metz said it was &#8220;fair to assume that he has left.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Imagine that.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE:  Or, as <a href=\"http:\/\/yglesias.typepad.com\/matthew\/2004\/11\/shocking.html\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew Yglesias says:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Boy &#8212; guerilla force flees rather than stand and be slaughtered by better-armed foe. Who could have predicted that except <em>every goddamn person on the face of the earth.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Peterson of the Christian Science Monitor: Despite the steady rumble of fighting, from frequent artillery and rocket explosions, to bursts of small arms fire across the city, US forces entered a veritable ghost town. Lt. Gen. Thomas Metz, commander of ground forces in Iraq and of the U.S. Army&#8217;s III Corps adds: Speaking of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"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\/1439","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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1439"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}