{"id":158,"date":"2003-09-30T07:05:48","date_gmt":"2003-09-30T11:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=158"},"modified":"2003-09-30T07:05:48","modified_gmt":"2003-09-30T11:05:48","slug":"salary-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=158","title":{"rendered":"Salary dispute?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;u=\/afp\/20030930\/ts_afp\/iraq_worldwrap&#038;cid=1503&#038;ncid=1480\">US forces west of the northern city of Kirkuk<\/a> killed a 10-year-old child and wounded a 25-year-old man when they opened fire on hundreds of demonstrators who pelted them with stones, hospital director Abdullah Jiburi claimed. <\/p>\n<p>However, a US military spokesperson denied Tuesday that US forces shot the boy saying &#8220;somebody within the crowd shot him.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Fourth Infantry Division (4th ID) spokesperson Major Josslyn Aberle disputed Jiburi&#8217;s account of the protest, describing the demonstration as &#8220;some sort of salary dispute &#8230; not anti-US, nor pro-Saddam.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>An AFP correspondent on the scene said the casualties occurred when around 500 protestors carrying portraits of Saddam took to the streets of Hawija and began pelting US soldiers with stones.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t democracy a beautiful thing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;US forces west of the northern city of Kirkuk killed a 10-year-old child and wounded a 25-year-old man when they opened fire on hundreds of demonstrators who pelted them with stones, hospital director Abdullah Jiburi claimed. However, a US military &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=158\">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-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-2y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","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=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}