{"id":2256,"date":"2003-03-04T04:00:01","date_gmt":"2003-03-04T11:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2003\/03\/fisk-fisks-himself\/"},"modified":"2003-03-04T04:00:01","modified_gmt":"2003-03-04T11:00:01","slug":"fisk-fisks-himself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/03\/04\/fisk-fisks-himself\/","title":{"rendered":"Fisk Fisks himself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a title=\"Argument\" href=\"http:\/\/argument.independent.co.uk\/commentators\/story.jsp?story=383299\">Robert Fisk<\/a> doesn&#8217;t believe that Khalid Sheikh Muhammed has really been caught, but forces himself to face the possiblity that his head may be up his ass again:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Of course, it may all turn out to be true. We may be provided with the proof the Taliban demand. Or Mr Mohammed may be kept in Pakistani custody until another &#8220;mastermind&#8221; can be discovered. Or it may be that reports of the &#8220;arrest&#8221; of the likes of Mr Mohammed are very useful to General Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan&#8217;s President, when he&#8217;s just angered the Americans by criticising any US military attack on Iraq, or when Pakistan&#8217;s new regional government in the North West Frontier province has just instituted Taliban-style laws in Peshawar.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You just can&#8217;t make this stuff up.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Fisk doesn&#8217;t believe that Khalid Sheikh Muhammed has really been caught, but forces himself to face the possiblity that his head may be up his ass again: Of course, it may all turn out to be true. We may be provided with the proof the Taliban demand. Or Mr Mohammed may be kept in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/03\/04\/fisk-fisks-himself\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fisk Fisks himself&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-Ao","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}