{"id":26175,"date":"2011-08-15T08:27:57","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T12:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26175"},"modified":"2011-08-15T08:27:57","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T12:27:57","slug":"bombs-kill-60-across-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26175","title":{"rendered":"Bombs kill 60 across Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the US gets closer to it&#8217;s scheduled withdrawal date, 60 Iraqis succumbed to several bombing attacks across the country today according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/ap.stripes.com\/dynamic\/stories\/M\/ML_IRAQ?SITE=DCSAS&#038;SECTION=HOME&#038;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&#038;CTIME=2011-08-15-02-43-29\">Associated Press<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The blasts were coordinated to go off Monday morning and included parked car bombs, roadside bombs, a suicide bomber driving a vehicle that rammed into a police station and even bombs attached to lightpoles.<\/p>\n<p>The scope of the violence &#8211; seven explosions went off in different towns in Diyala province alone &#8211; emphasized that insurgents are still able to carry out attacks despite repeated crackdowns by Iraqi and U.S. forces.<\/p>\n<p>Iraqis were furious at security officials and Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Who would have thought that violence would increase as we publicized our withdrawal and make a big deal about the schedule? Well, except everyone with more than half-a-brain. This attack comes just weeks after the Maliki government admitted that they&#8217;ll be hoping the US would leave combat forces there a little longer. I guess some folks in Iraq can&#8217;t wait for us to leave now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the US gets closer to it&#8217;s scheduled withdrawal date, 60 Iraqis succumbed to several bombing &hellip; <a title=\"Bombs kill 60 across Iraq\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26175\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bombs kill 60 across Iraq<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26175","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}