{"id":492,"date":"2005-08-31T20:57:08","date_gmt":"2005-09-01T00:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2005\/08\/31\/somewhere-usama-is-smiling\/"},"modified":"2005-08-31T20:57:08","modified_gmt":"2005-09-01T00:57:08","slug":"somewhere-usama-is-smiling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/08\/31\/somewhere-usama-is-smiling\/","title":{"rendered":"Somewhere, Usama is Smiling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a6830'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/usama106.jpg\" width=\"248\" height=\"177\" align=\"left\">Panicked by rumors of a suicide bomber, thousands of Shiite pilgrims<br \/>\n        broke into a stampede on a bridge during a religious procession Wednesday,<br \/>\n        crushing one another or plunging 30 feet into the muddy Tigris river. About<br \/>\n        800 died, mostly women and children, officials said. from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/2005\/08\/31\/D8CB2TU8K.html\">AP<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><em>They didn&#8217;t even have to waste a martyr or any valuable explosives,<br \/>\n        and they managed to kill more people than in any suicide attack since<br \/>\n        9\/11. With a rumor!<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">New Orleans&#8217; homeland<br \/>\n          security chief, Terry Ebbert, said looters were breaking into stores<br \/>\n          all over town and stealing guns. He said there are gangs of armed men<br \/>\n          moving around the city. At one point, officers stranded on the roof<br \/>\n          of a hotel were fired at by criminals on the street. from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/2005\/08\/31\/D8CB0FN8G.html\">AP<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em>Sounds a lot like Bagdad&#8230;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Fears of an international energy crisis mounted yesterday<br \/>\n        as the scale of human and economic devastation caused in the southern<br \/>\n      US by Hurricane Katrina became fully apparent. from <a href=\"http:\/\/news.ft.com\/cms\/s\/bb273a94-1a3a-11da-b279-00000e2511c8.html\">the Financial Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em>Why waste energy fighting the Great Satan, when we are<br \/>\n        doing such a good job of fighting ourselves. Somewhere Usama is smiling&#8230;..<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Panicked by rumors of a suicide bomber, thousands of Shiite pilgrims broke into a stampede on a bridge during a religious procession Wednesday, crushing one another or plunging 30 feet into the muddy Tigris river. About 800 died, mostly women &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/08\/31\/somewhere-usama-is-smiling\/\">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":[1442],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-serious-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492","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=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}