{"id":810,"date":"2007-10-30T13:07:51","date_gmt":"2007-10-30T17:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/30\/iraqi-catches-shark-in-river-us-to-blame\/"},"modified":"2007-10-30T13:07:51","modified_gmt":"2007-10-30T17:07:51","slug":"iraqi-catches-shark-in-river-us-to-blame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=810","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi Catches Shark in River, US to Blame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/oddlyEnoughNews\/idUSL3019334620071030?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=oddlyEnoughNews&amp;rpc=22&amp;sp=true\">Reuters reports<\/a>  Karim  Thamir was fishing with his sons last week 160 miles from the coast when they saw a large fish thrashing in their net. Thamir said he recognized it as a shark, because he had seen them on TV. Shark Week to the rescue! <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dr. Mohamed Ajah, assistant dean of the college of science at Thi Qar University in Nassiriya, said barriers in river estuaries usually prevented sharks swimming upstream.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In this case, I think this animal was there for a long time but no one had managed to see it,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Locals blamed the U.S. military for the shark&#8217;s presence.<\/p>\n<p>Tahseen Ali, a teacher, said there was a &#8220;75 percent chance&#8221; Americans had put the shark in the water. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now we&#8217;re wrangling sharks to ruin the fun of Iraqi children? Will there be no end to our evil?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters reports Karim Thamir was fishing with his sons last week 160 miles from the coast &hellip; <a title=\"Iraqi Catches Shark in River, US to Blame\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=810\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Iraqi Catches Shark in River, US to Blame<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810","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\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}