{"id":2327,"date":"2003-04-06T14:06:15","date_gmt":"2003-04-06T21:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2003\/04\/iraqi-opposition-leader-airlifted-into-iraq\/"},"modified":"2003-04-06T14:06:15","modified_gmt":"2003-04-06T21:06:15","slug":"iraqi-opposition-leader-airlifted-into-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/04\/06\/iraqi-opposition-leader-airlifted-into-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi opposition leader airlifted into Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a title=\"ABCNEWS.com : U.S. Flies in Iraqi Opposition Troops\" href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/sections\/world\/Primetime\/iraq040503_opposition.html\">ABCNEWS<\/a> reports that INC leader Ahmad Chalabi has been flown into southern Iraq along with 1,000 of his troops:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>April 5 &#8212; The United States military has begun to airlift Iraqi opposition fighters into southern Iraq, ABC News has learned. It is the first major step towards establishing a physical Iraqi presence on the side of the coalition push against the regime of Saddam Hussein.<\/p>\n<p>The airlift, which began Friday night, will put about 1,000 Iraqi opposition forces into a base in southern Iraq controlled by coalition forces.<br \/>\nThe force is under the control of the Iraqi National Congress and its leader Ahmed Chalabi, who will accompany his troops into Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>The opposition forces will also attempt to help set up liason relationships between U.S.-led forces and the Shiite leadership in southern Iraq, help coalition forces clear out remaining paramilitary forces and restore security. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is significant for a couple of reasons: it will solidify the Iraqi resistance already present in Iraq and it will give Chalabi a leg up in taking a major role in the new regime, which will reportedly come on-line Tuesday. With Saddam&#8217;s loyalists dropping like flies in suicidal actions, the only real fight for control of Iraq pits the Pentagon and the White House against the State Department and the CIA.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABCNEWS reports that INC leader Ahmad Chalabi has been flown into southern Iraq along with 1,000 of his troops: April 5 &#8212; The United States military has begun to airlift Iraqi opposition fighters into southern Iraq, ABC News has learned. It is the first major step towards establishing a physical Iraqi presence on the side &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/04\/06\/iraqi-opposition-leader-airlifted-into-iraq\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Iraqi opposition leader airlifted into Iraq&#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_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-2327","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-Bx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327","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=2327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}