{"id":3842,"date":"2007-09-03T13:06:24","date_gmt":"2007-09-03T20:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/03\/political-asylum-for-fearful-iraqi-watchdog\/"},"modified":"2007-09-03T13:06:24","modified_gmt":"2007-09-03T20:06:24","slug":"political-asylum-for-fearful-iraqi-watchdog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/03\/political-asylum-for-fearful-iraqi-watchdog\/","title":{"rendered":"Political asylum for fearful Iraqi watchdog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to news source <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.iraqslogger.com\/\"><i>IraqSlogger<\/i><\/a>,  a high-level official from a watchdog group has been <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.iraqslogger.com\/index.php\/post\/4187\/Tipster_Iraqi_Official_Granted_US_Asylum\">granted<\/a>  political asylum in the U.S. Although the tip hasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t been confirmed as yet,  <i>IraqSlogger<\/i> notes that it comes from a &quot;well-placed source.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>The controversial figure granted the asylum, says <i>IraqSlogger<\/i>, may  be <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.dodig.mil\/IGInformation\/archives\/JudgeAl-Radhi042006.htm\">Judge  Radhi Hamza al-Radhi<\/a>, who heads the Iraqi <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.icac.org.hk\/newsl\/issue23eng\/button4.htm\">Commission  on Public Integrity<\/a>. Judge al-Radhi and his family have received numerous  threats already, and the fear of retaliation is great as many of al-Radhi\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s  colleagues and underlings have been <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/v28\/n21\/harr04_.html\">murdered<\/a>  due to their work rooting out <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.iraqirabita.org\/english\/index.php?do=article&amp;id=448\">corruption<\/a> in Iraq\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ministries. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to news source IraqSlogger, a high-level official from a watchdog group has been granted political asylum in the U.S. Although the tip hasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t been confirmed as yet, IraqSlogger notes that it comes from a &quot;well-placed source.&quot; The controversial figure granted the asylum, says IraqSlogger, may be Judge Radhi Hamza al-Radhi, who heads the Iraqi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"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":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3842","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\/3842","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3842"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}