{"id":3460,"date":"2007-04-20T23:55:11","date_gmt":"2007-04-21T06:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/20\/dilip-hiro\/"},"modified":"2007-04-21T00:02:14","modified_gmt":"2007-04-21T07:02:14","slug":"dilip-hiro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/20\/dilip-hiro\/","title":{"rendered":"Dilip Hiro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dilip Hiro, author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Secrets-Lies-Operation-Freedom-Prelude\/dp\/1560255560\/antiwarbookstore\"><em>Secrets and Lies: Operation &#8220;Iraqi Freedom&#8221; and After: A Prelude to the Fall of U.S. Power in the Middle East?<\/em><\/a> and 27 other books, discusses the end of the Iraqi Shia&#8217;s patience with the U.S. occupation and the relationships between the different Shia power blocks in Iraq&#8217;s south.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dissentradio.com\/radio\/07_04_20_hiro.mp3\"><strong>MP3 here<\/strong><\/a>. (44:12)<\/p>\n<p>Born in the Indian sub-continent, Dilip Hiro was educated in India, Britain and America, where he received a master&#8217;s degree at Virginia Polytechnic &#038; State University. He then settled in London in the mid-1960s, and became a full-time writer, journalist and commentator. He has published <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/search-handle-url\/002-2232258-8873657?%5Fencoding=UTF8&#038;search-type=ss&#038;index=books&#038;field-author=Dilip%20Hiro\">28 books<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Actions Have Consequences<\/em><\/strong>: Iraqi Shia Out of Patience<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"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-3460","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\/3460","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3460"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}