{"id":2785,"date":"2004-08-09T16:43:51","date_gmt":"2004-08-09T23:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=2785"},"modified":"2004-08-09T16:43:51","modified_gmt":"2004-08-09T23:43:51","slug":"moqtada-al-sadr-defiant-says-360-dead-just-a-flesh-wound-vows-to-bite-the-ankles-of-the-coalition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=2785","title":{"rendered":"Moqtada al-Sadr defiant; says 360 dead &#8220;just a flesh wound,&#8221; vows to &#8220;bite the ankles&#8221; of the coalition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"Moqtada al-Sadr\">Reuters:<\/a>  &#8220;A firebrand Shi&#8217;ite cleric on Monday defied demands from Iraq&#8217;s interim government that his militia pull out of Najaf, after days of fierce clashes with U.S. Marines who say they have killed 360 of his fighters.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p> Heavily armed Marines backed by aircraft tightened their noose around the holy city in heavy fighting Monday, but a senior U.S. military official denied coalition forces were hunting the young cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSadr thundered defiance during a news conference at Najaf&#8217;s holiest shrine, the Imam Ali mosque.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;The Mehdi Army and I will keep resisting. I will stay in holy Najaf and will never leave,&#8221; Sadr said. &#8220;I will stay here until my last drop of blood.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nPerfect.&nbsp; Because your last drop of blood is exactly what we require of you, Mookie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters: &#8220;A firebrand Shi&#8217;ite cleric on Monday defied demands from Iraq&#8217;s interim government that his militia pull out of Najaf, after days of fierce clashes with U.S. Marines who say they have killed 360 of his fighters. Heavily armed Marines backed by aircraft tightened their noose around the holy city in heavy fighting Monday, but a senior U.S. military official denied coalition forces were hunting the young cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.<\/p>\n<div class=\"belowpost\"><a class=\"btnmore\" href=\"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=2785\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":9196393,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9196393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}