{"id":1237,"date":"2006-01-11T16:19:12","date_gmt":"2006-01-11T20:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=1237"},"modified":"2006-01-11T16:19:12","modified_gmt":"2006-01-11T20:19:12","slug":"us-services-no-longer-required","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1237","title":{"rendered":"U.S. services no longer required"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>SCIRI leader rules out major changes to Charter<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Compiled by Daily Star staff<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailystar.com.lb\/article.asp?edition_id=10&#038;categ_id=2&#038;article_id=21384\">Thursday, January 12, 2006<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the southern Iraqi city of Najaf, a Shiite cleric close to SCIRI, warned against a return to power of former Baathist supporters of Saddam Hussein. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One must guard against the new Baathists dressed up like Islamists who kindle terrorism in Baghdad and certain provinces, and defeat their plans to return to centers of power,&#8221; said Sadreddine al-Kubbanji, speaking at a prayer meeting, in a veiled reference to Sunni leaders. <\/p>\n<p>He also called for the Interior and Defense ministries to be given a free hand in fighting terrorism, and urged U.S.-led multinational forces not to intervene in the matter. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The multinational force&#8217;s flirting with terrorists has led to the recent worsening in the security situation,&#8221; he told thousands of faithful gathered at the Husseiniyya Fatimiyya Mosque.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For all of the Bush administration&#8217;s continued jesting about the need to remain in Iraq untill the new gov&#8217;ts security forces are built-up, obviously U.S. services are no longer welcome or required.<\/p>\n<p>And if Iraqis want a preview of what to expect should they mire the country&#8217;s oil production in the mesh of IMF globalisation, twenty years of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/doc\/20060123\/eviatar\">failed policies in Bolivia<\/a> should be education enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCIRI leader rules out major changes to Charter Compiled by Daily Star staff Thursday, January 12, 2006 In the southern Iraqi city of Najaf, a Shiite cleric close to SCIRI, warned against a return to power of former Baathist supporters &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1237\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-jX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}