{"id":311,"date":"2008-02-28T10:36:19","date_gmt":"2008-02-28T15:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=311"},"modified":"2008-02-28T09:59:24","modified_gmt":"2008-02-28T14:59:24","slug":"passive-support-for-al-qaeda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=311","title":{"rendered":"Passive support for al-Qaeda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>National Review<\/em> continues to push <a href=\"http:\/\/article.nationalreview.com\/print\/?q=NWJkODEyOGZlYTNjMTE0Yzk0Nzc3YTExMmYwNjhkYjc=\">the long-discredited understanding of the Iraqi insurgency<\/a> with this article in the current magazine describing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span><span>a realistic and detailed picture of the enemy &#8230; in Fallujah&#8230; \u2014  \u201can insurgent global all-star team\u201d that included \u201cChechen snipers, Filipino machine gunners, Pakistani mortar men, and Saudi suicide bombers.\u201d The insurgents were not ordinary Iraqis fighting for their freedom against an invading power \u2014 but international Islamic militants supported by al-Qaeda.<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aeaweb.org\/annual_mtg_papers\/2007\/0105_1430_1601.pdf\">U.S. government estimates [pdf]<\/a> that the insurgency in Iraq is made up of approximately 4% to 10% foreign fighters.  This was <a href=\"http:\/\/fairuse.100webcustomers.com\/fairenough\/latimesA98.html\">widely reported<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iraqi_insurgency#_note-29\">2005<\/a> and 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Keeping with the &#8220;fair and balanced&#8221; approach to news that let&#8217;s &#8220;you decide!&#8221;  ((Aren&#8217;t FoxNews and the National Review basically the same thing?)) , the article concludes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span><span>I\u2019ll leave it to you to decide where passive<em> <\/em>support for al-Qaeda still persists.<strong>  <\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Review continues to push the long-discredited understanding of the Iraqi insurgency with this article in the current magazine describing: a realistic and detailed picture of the enemy &#8230; in Fallujah&#8230; \u2014 \u201can insurgent global all-star team\u201d that included \u201cChechen snipers, Filipino machine gunners, Pakistani mortar men, and Saudi suicide bombers.\u201d The insurgents were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[28,4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iraq","category-politics","category-the-war-on-terrorism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-51","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}