{"id":1569,"date":"2004-12-23T23:35:32","date_gmt":"2004-12-24T06:35:32","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-12-23T23:35:32","modified_gmt":"2004-12-24T06:35:32","slug":"rubbing-salt-in-the-wound-ansar-al-sunna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/23\/rubbing-salt-in-the-wound-ansar-al-sunna\/","title":{"rendered":"Rubbing salt in the wound: Ansar al-Sunna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ansar al-Sunna <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/common\/story_page\/0,4057,11775244%255E1702,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">taunts the US<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;First they said it was a mortar or rockets, then they said it was a suicide operation with local materials, and so on,&#8221; the statement on Ansar al-Sunna&#8217;s website said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Are they really this stupid, that they still don&#8217;t know how they&#8217;ve been hit, or was it too painful to admit?&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>The statement, dated December 23, repeated a claim on Wednesday that one of the group&#8217;s &#8220;martyrs&#8221; had carried out the attack. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For a more complete victory Ansar al Sunna needs the Americans to overreact and go on a rampage in Mosul, thus turning more of the locals against them.  The US <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/worldlatest\/story\/0,1280,-4688517,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">may be obliging.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ansar al-Sunna taunts the US: &#8220;First they said it was a mortar or rockets, then they said it was a suicide operation with local materials, and so on,&#8221; the statement on Ansar al-Sunna&#8217;s website said. &#8220;Are they really this stupid, that they still don&#8217;t know how they&#8217;ve been hit, or was it too painful to [&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-1569","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\/1569","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=1569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1569"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}