{"id":1310,"date":"2003-08-30T09:40:35","date_gmt":"2003-08-30T13:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/08\/30\/crowds-gather-tensions-rise-in-najaf\/"},"modified":"2003-08-30T09:40:35","modified_gmt":"2003-08-30T13:40:35","slug":"crowds-gather-tensions-rise-in-najaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/08\/30\/crowds-gather-tensions-rise-in-najaf\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowds Gather, Tensions Rise in Najaf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a846'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"203\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/najaf.jpg\" width=\"203\" height=\"152\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"326\">\n<p>BBC correspondent Valerie Jones, at the scene of the blast outside<br \/>\n        the Imam Ali Mosque, said the crowds were chanting against Saddam Hussein<br \/>\n        and the US forces. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;They are blaming Saddam Hussein supporters for the attack but also they<br \/>\n        are starting to rather vehemently blame the Americans for not providing<br \/>\n      them security,&quot; our correspondent said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/middle_east\/3193713.stml\">from the<br \/>\n          BBC<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC correspondent Valerie Jones, at the scene of the blast outside the Imam Ali Mosque, said the crowds were chanting against Saddam Hussein and the US forces. &quot;They are blaming Saddam Hussein supporters for the attack but also they are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/08\/30\/crowds-gather-tensions-rise-in-najaf\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}