{"id":1803,"date":"2005-02-11T01:07:19","date_gmt":"2005-02-11T08:07:19","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-02-11T01:07:19","modified_gmt":"2005-02-11T08:07:19","slug":"the-new-shia-army-of-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/11\/the-new-shia-army-of-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Shi&#8217;a Army of Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,7374-1479365,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bronwen Maddox in The Times<\/a> reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is also encouraging \u2014 up to a point \u2014 that the recruiting drive to the security forces has seen such interest from Shias. Some Iraqi security officers have told The Times that Shia recruitments make up as much as three quarters of the total.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If true, we now have a Shi`a government with a US-trained Shi`a security force in place in Iraq.  One might even speculate as to whether the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciri.btinternet.co.uk\/English\/About_Us\/Badr\/badr.html\" target=\"_blank\">Badr Brigades <\/a><I>are<\/I> the New Iraqi Army.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bronwen Maddox in The Times reports: It is also encouraging \u2014 up to a point \u2014 that the recruiting drive to the security forces has seen such interest from Shias. Some Iraqi security officers have told The Times that Shia recruitments make up as much as three quarters of the total. If true, we now [&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-1803","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\/1803","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=1803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1803"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}