{"id":4943,"date":"2008-11-23T12:47:33","date_gmt":"2008-11-23T20:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=4943"},"modified":"2008-11-23T12:47:33","modified_gmt":"2008-11-23T20:47:33","slug":"no-means-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/23\/no-means-no\/","title":{"rendered":"No Means No"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A US patrol attempts to enter an Iraqi university campus, but is stopped at the gates by campus officials. <\/p>\n<p>Six months ago if we saw this as a lead in to a story, there was a good bet the rest of it would involve the university president being marched out into the streets in chains and follow-up stories desperately trying to link him to some militant faction or another. <\/p>\n<p>But with a little over a month left before the UN mandate expires, and the Status of Forces Agreement set to severely curtail the authority of US forces on Iraqi soil, things turned out a little different. After being told they could only enter unarmed, out of uniform and then only after they make a proper appointment, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.aswataliraq.info\/?p=103531\">they turned around and left, no incident. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Asking permission is likely as novel a strategy for the military, used to getting its own way in Iraq on all things, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2008\/11\/21\/sources-us-to-begin-using-search-warrants-in-iraq\/\">as the notion of getting search warrants before entering peoples&#8217; homes<\/a>, but with the days of unchecked authority and arbitrary detentions seemingly over its something they&#8217;re going to have to get used to. So is hearing &#8220;no&#8221; when it asks for access. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A US patrol attempts to enter an Iraqi university campus, but is stopped at the gates by campus officials. Six months ago if we saw this as a lead in to a story, there was a good bet the rest of it would involve the university president being marched out into the streets in chains [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"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":[3],"tags":[687],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-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\/4943","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4944,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943\/revisions\/4944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4943"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}