{"id":257,"date":"2003-11-11T15:48:57","date_gmt":"2003-11-11T22:48:57","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2003-11-11T15:48:57","modified_gmt":"2003-11-11T22:48:57","slug":"iraqis-being-arrested-for-making-anti-us-statements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/11\/iraqis-being-arrested-for-making-anti-us-statements\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraqis Being Arrested for Making Anti-US Statements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>US &#8220;Democracy&#8221; in Iraq:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Within the past month, I have seen more and more stories that mention Iraqis being arrested for making anti-US or pro-Saddam statements.  Most of these news items have been buried in other stories or <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;u=\/031014\/241\/5kae0.html\">appear as captions on news photos.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s UK Mirror has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/24by7panews\/page.cfm?objectid=13613560&#038;method=full&#038;siteid=50143\">an article about US troops arresting and gagging an Iraqi man for &#8220;making anti-coalition statements.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US &#8220;Democracy&#8221; in Iraq: Within the past month, I have seen more and more stories that mention Iraqis being arrested for making anti-US or pro-Saddam statements. Most of these news items have been buried in other stories or appear as captions on news photos. Today&#8217;s UK Mirror has an article about US troops arresting and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"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-257","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\/257","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}