{"id":2323,"date":"2003-04-06T04:04:59","date_gmt":"2003-04-06T11:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2003\/04\/ali-dead-baathists-surrender\/"},"modified":"2003-04-06T04:04:59","modified_gmt":"2003-04-06T11:04:59","slug":"ali-dead-baathists-surrender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/04\/06\/ali-dead-baathists-surrender\/","title":{"rendered":"Ali dead, Baathists surrender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a title=\"Chemical Ali\" believed killed\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/news\/890574.asp\">MSNBC reports<\/a> things are going well in Basra:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>April 5 &#8212;  U.S. officials told NBC News on Saturday that they believed an overnight airstrike killed the man known as &#8220;Chemical Ali,&#8221; a cousin of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and commander of Iraq&#8217;s southern front. Meanwhile, leaders of the ruling Baath Party in Iraq&#8217;s second city Basra reportedly fear public reprisals and were seeking to negotiate a surrender to British military forces besieging the city.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The people are helping coalition forces root out the Baathists now, so they&#8217;re toast. So much for &#8220;fierce resistance against foreign invaders.&#8221;\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2323","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-Bt","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323","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=2323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}