{"id":2182,"date":"2008-07-31T20:49:43","date_gmt":"2008-08-01T00:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=2182"},"modified":"2008-07-31T20:49:43","modified_gmt":"2008-08-01T00:49:43","slug":"this-used-to-be-called-%e2%80%9cmopping-up%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=2182","title":{"rendered":"This Used to be called \u201cMopping Up\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/al-masrileavingiraq.jpg' title='al-masrileavingiraq.jpg'><img src='https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/al-masrileavingiraq.jpg' alt='al-masrileavingiraq.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Jawa Report has this from the Washington Post<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>BAGHDAD, July 30 &#8212; The leader of the Sunni insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq and several of his top lieutenants have recently left Iraq for Afghanistan, according to group leaders and Iraqi intelligence officials, a possible further sign of what Iraqi and U.S. officials call growing disarray and weakness in the organization.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Couple of points here:<\/p>\n<p>Number 1:  This punk-assed pansy is running like the beaten pig that he is.  No thanks to Nancy and Harry but he and his hoard of brain-dead radicals have been thoroughly throttled in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>Number 2:  He did not run to Afghanistan because he knows he would be hunted down and ventilated by US forces.  He went somewhere far more friendly like Pakistan or Berkley.<\/p>\n<p>His day will come however and the sooner the better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jawa Report has this from the Washington Post BAGHDAD, July 30 &#8212; The leader of &hellip; <a title=\"This Used to be called \u201cMopping Up\u201d\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=2182\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This Used to be called \u201cMopping Up\u201d<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}