{"id":2964,"date":"2006-08-13T17:50:49","date_gmt":"2006-08-13T21:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2006\/08\/13\/but-theyre-our-mercenaries\/"},"modified":"2006-08-13T17:50:49","modified_gmt":"2006-08-13T21:50:49","slug":"but-theyre-our-mercenaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2006\/08\/13\/but-theyre-our-mercenaries\/","title":{"rendered":"But They&#8217;re OUR Mercenaries&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a8721'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While the Bush Administration calls for the immediate disbanding of what it has labeled &#8220;private&#8221; and &#8220;illegal&#8221; militias in Lebanon and Iraq, it is pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into its own global private mercenary army tasked with protecting US officials and institutions overseas.<\/p>\n<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/doc\/20060828\/scahill\">The Nation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the Bush Administration calls for the immediate disbanding of what it has labeled &#8220;private&#8221; and &#8220;illegal&#8221; militias in Lebanon and Iraq, it is pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into its own global private mercenary army tasked with protecting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2006\/08\/13\/but-theyre-our-mercenaries\/\">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":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2964","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=2964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}