{"id":879,"date":"2004-05-06T18:19:58","date_gmt":"2004-05-07T01:19:58","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-05-06T18:19:58","modified_gmt":"2004-05-07T01:19:58","slug":"time-to-bomb-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/06\/time-to-bomb-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to Bomb Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The limeys are turning on us. According to Tony Blair&#8217;s personal human rights envoy to Iraq, &#8220;U.S. soldiers who detained an elderly Iraqi woman last year placed a harness on her, made her crawl on all fours and rode her like a donkey[&#8230;].&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>The abuse occurred last year in Baghdad&#8217;s Abu Ghraib prison and at another coalition detention center, Clwyd said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She was held for about six weeks without charge,&#8221; the envoy told Wednesday&#8217;s Evening Standard newspaper. &#8220;During that time she was insulted and told she was a donkey. A harness was put on her, and an American rode on her back.&#8221;<\/ul>\n<p><a href=http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;cid=518&#038;u=\/ap\/20040505\/ap_on_re_eu\/britain_iraq_us_prisoner_abuse&#038;printer=1>Read the whole thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=http:\/\/www.reason.com\/hitandrun\/005265.shtml#005265>Jesse Walker<\/a> for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The limeys are turning on us. According to Tony Blair&#8217;s personal human rights envoy to Iraq, &#8220;U.S. soldiers who detained an elderly Iraqi woman last year placed a harness on her, made her crawl on all fours and rode her like a donkey[&#8230;].&#8221; The abuse occurred last year in Baghdad&#8217;s Abu Ghraib prison and at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"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-879","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\/879","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}