{"id":24702,"date":"2015-01-08T06:56:40","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T14:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=24702"},"modified":"2015-01-08T06:56:40","modified_gmt":"2015-01-08T14:56:40","slug":"blowback-paris-terror-suspect-radicalized-by-outrage-over-american-torture-and-invasion-of-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/08\/blowback-paris-terror-suspect-radicalized-by-outrage-over-american-torture-and-invasion-of-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"Blowback: Paris Terror Suspect Radicalized by Outrage Over American Torture and Invasion of Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the Paris terror suspects was radicalized by outrage over American torture and the invasion of Iraq. <em>The Huffington Post<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2015\/01\/07\/charlie-hebdo-suspects_n_6431842.html\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The Associated Press said that Cherif Kouachi was tried in 2008 for helping funnel fighters to Iraq and sentenced to 18 months in prison. Kouachi told the court at the time that he was outraged by images that revealed the torture of Iraqi inmates by U.S. guards at the Abu Ghraib prison, according to the AP.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>And <em>The New York Times<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/01\/08\/world\/two-brothers-suspected-in-killings-were-known-to-french-intelligence-services.html\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Ch\u00e9rif\u2019s interest in radical Islam, it was said at the 2008 trial, was rooted in his fury over the United States\u2019 invasion of Iraq in 2003, particularly the mistreatment of Muslims held at Abu Ghraib prison.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the Paris terror suspects was radicalized by outrage over American torture and the invasion of Iraq. The Huffington Post reports: &#8220;The Associated Press said that Cherif Kouachi was tried in 2008 for helping funnel fighters to Iraq and sentenced to 18 months in prison. Kouachi told the court at the time that he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":193,"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":[64,32],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-24702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abu-ghraib","category-iraq"],"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\/24702","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\/193"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24703,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24702\/revisions\/24703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24702"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=24702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}