{"id":1634,"date":"2006-10-05T16:39:29","date_gmt":"2006-10-05T20:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=1634"},"modified":"2006-10-05T16:39:29","modified_gmt":"2006-10-05T20:39:29","slug":"the-great-uniter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1634","title":{"rendered":"The Great Uniter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the US decided to get rid of Ibrahim al-Jaafari, Iraq&#8217;s President Jalal Talabani insisted that his nomination to a second term, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/news.scotsman.com\/topics.cfm?tid=404&#038;id=332752006\">was an obstacle to uniting the country<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And the media reported that he was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zaman.com\/?bl=international&#038;alt=&#038;hn=36834\">referring<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenewanatolian.com\/tna-15495.html\">the country of Iraq<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Justice and Development Party (AKP) Balikesir Deputy Turhan Comez, who has been to northern Iraq to prepare a report on the future of Kirkuk, asked Chairman of Kirkuk Provincial Assembly Rizgar Ali to remove a false ?Kurdistan? map, which indicated that there were several independent states in eastern Turkey.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How long will the media portray Talabani as an Iraqi leader, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zaman.com\/?bl=international&#038;alt=&#038;hn=36834\">until permanent US bases have been built in Kurdistan<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the US decided to get rid of Ibrahim al-Jaafari, Iraq&#8217;s President Jalal Talabani insisted that his nomination to a second term, &#8220;was an obstacle to uniting the country.&#8221; And the media reported that he was referring to the country &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1634\">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-1634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-qm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634","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=1634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}