{"id":4112,"date":"2007-12-10T23:38:24","date_gmt":"2007-12-11T06:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/10\/dilip-hiro-3\/"},"modified":"2007-12-10T23:38:24","modified_gmt":"2007-12-11T06:38:24","slug":"dilip-hiro-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/10\/dilip-hiro-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Dilip Hiro"},"content":{"rendered":"[audio:http:\/\/wiredispatch.com\/charles\/2007-12-10dilliphiro.mp3]\n<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>, discusses the history of U.S. relations with Iraq, why they didn&#8217;t topple Saddam in 1991, the Iran-Iraq war and his belief that the Annapolis summit was held mostly for the purpose of holding together the Arab coalition against Iran.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wiredispatch.com\/charles\/2007-12-10dilliphiro.mp3\"><strong>MP3 here<\/strong><\/a>. (15:06)<\/p>\n<p>Born in the Indian sub-continent, Dilip Hiro was educated in India, Britain and America, where he received a master\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 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>US Has Abused Iraq for a Long Time<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"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-4112","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\/4112","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\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4112"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}