{"id":18739,"date":"2011-03-11T07:06:13","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T13:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=18739"},"modified":"2011-03-11T07:06:13","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T13:06:13","slug":"lie-down-with-dogs-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=18739","title":{"rendered":"Lie Down With Dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Exum, a former Ranger officer who blogs at <em>Abu Muquwam<\/em>a (which is affilaiated with the Center for a New American Security) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnas.org\/blogs\/abumuqawama\/2011\/03\/rebels-love-us-right.html\">on a a factoid about the &#8220;rebel&#8221;, eastern part of Libya<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I was looking through the Sinjar documents (.pdf) today because I remembered (incorrectly, as it turns out) that Benghazi had sent more foreign fighters to Iraq than any other city in the Arabic-speaking world. On a per capita basis, though, twice as many foreign fighters came to Iraq from Libya &#8212; and specifically eastern Libya &#8212; than from any other country in the Arabic-speaking world. Libyans were apparently more fired up to travel to Iraq to kill Americans than anyone else in the Middle East. And 84.1% of the 88 Libyan fighters in the Sinjar documents who listed their hometowns came from either Benghazi or Darnah in Libya&#8217;s east. This might explain why those rebels from Libya&#8217;s eastern provinces are not too excited about U.S. military intervention. It might also give some pause to those in the United States so eager to arm Libya&#8217;s rebels.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course (as a commenter notes) it could be that Qaddhafi used Iraq as an excuse to get ride of Muslim militants that could just as easily have bedeviled him.<\/p>\n<p>But the Middle East <em>is <\/em>like unravelling an onion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Exum, a former Ranger officer who blogs at Abu Muquwama (which is affilaiated with the Center for a New American Security) on a a factoid about the &#8220;rebel&#8221;, eastern part of Libya: I was looking through the Sinjar documents (.pdf) today because I remembered (incorrectly, as it turns out) that Benghazi had sent more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war-on-terror","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18739"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18746,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18739\/revisions\/18746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}