{"id":3039,"date":"2008-03-31T10:21:46","date_gmt":"2008-03-31T16:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3039"},"modified":"2008-03-31T10:21:46","modified_gmt":"2008-03-31T16:21:46","slug":"25-year-old-afghani-army-supplier-also-a-songwriting-myspace-sap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3039","title":{"rendered":"25-Year-Old Afghani Army Supplier Also a Songwriting MySpace Sap?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Tyler Gray, <em>Radar<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/radaronline.com\/exclusives\/2008\/03\/david-packouz-afghanistan-arms-dealer-efraim-diveroli.php\">27 March 2008<\/a><\/strong> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He&#8217;s into poetry, new agey acoustic alchemy, and quality time with his  daughter, according to what, by all appearances is Packouz&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/profile.myspace.com\/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&amp;friendID=423013\" target=\"_blank\">MySpace page<\/a>. Not only is there a picture of Packouz that  almost exactly matches the one in today&#8217;s <em>Times<\/em>, but there&#8217;s a link to  what appears to be his music page, <a href=\"http:\/\/profile.myspace.com\/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&amp;friendid=324604849\" target=\"_blank\">DavidPAQ: MicroCOSM<\/a>, and a picture of what appears to be the  same man\u2014kinda Daughtry-esque\u2014sitting with the daughter he so frequently dotes  on in his lyrics. Asked via MySpace message to confirm whether he was the same  David in the paper today, &#8220;DavidPAQ&#8221; replied that he couldn&#8217;t comment on the  case, saying it&#8217;s an ongoing investigation (now soon to be <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2008\/03\/waxman_scheds_hearing_for_twen.php\" target=\"_blank\">congressional testimony<\/a>, thanks to Henry Waxman, D-CA), but he  did tell <em>Radar<\/em> this: &#8220;How it will affect me only time will tell. My  goal has always been to make a living from my music. I should complete my album  within a month or two. There will be a song on there about my former scumbag  partner (called &#8216;Hog in the Rat Race&#8217;)\u2014I&#8217;m in the process of recording it now.  Hope you enjoy the music!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/radaronline.com\/exclusives\/2008\/03\/david-packouz-afghanistan-arms-dealer-efraim-diveroli.php\">Read the report<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tyler Gray, Radar, 27 March 2008 He&#8217;s into poetry, new agey acoustic alchemy, and quality time with his daughter, according to what, by all appearances is Packouz&#8217;s MySpace page. Not only is there a picture of Packouz that almost &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3039\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-3039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-N1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3039","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=3039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}