{"id":1005,"date":"2007-07-03T05:20:14","date_gmt":"2007-07-03T11:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/07\/03\/1005\/"},"modified":"2007-07-02T09:56:38","modified_gmt":"2007-07-02T15:56:38","slug":"1005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1005","title":{"rendered":"An Empty Village"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Yon reports from an Iraqi village that was apparently the victim of an Al Quaeda mass murder:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I told the Iraqi commander, Captain Baker, that it was important that Americans see this; he took me around the graves and showed more than I wanted to see. He said the people had been murdered by al Qaeda. I made video of him speaking, and of the horrible scene. The heat and stench were crushingly oppressive and broken only by the sounds of shovels as Iraqi soldiers kept digging.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelyon-online.com\/wp\/bless-the-beasts-and-children.htm\">Yon&#8217;s piece is a pictorial<\/a>, and not for the squeamish.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hm.\u00a0 Maybe if the villagers had been the subject of a stupid giggly photodocumentary by US troops (but were alive today), the US mainstream media would cover the story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Yon reports from an Iraqi village that was apparently the victim of an Al Quaeda mass murder: I told the Iraqi commander, Captain Baker, that it was important that Americans see this; he took me around the graves and showed more than I wanted to see. He said the people had been murdered by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}