{"id":216,"date":"2003-02-05T16:55:37","date_gmt":"2003-02-05T16:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2003\/02\/blair_defending\/"},"modified":"2003-02-05T16:55:37","modified_gmt":"2003-02-05T16:55:37","slug":"blair_defending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2003\/02\/blair_defending\/","title":{"rendered":"Blair Defending Al-Qaeda Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now this is something I simply don&#8217;t understand. Tony Blair is <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk_politics\/2728535.stm\">reported today<\/a> to still be insisting that the Iraqi regime is somehow (and this is undefined) linked to Al-Qaeda.<br \/>\nNow maybe I&#8217;m missing something enormously obvious here, but despite Saddam eveninig saying himself in yesterday&#8217;s interview, that he&#8217;s not linked with them (and if he was he&#8217;d happily admit to it), the two doctrines are fundamentally opposed. Yes Saddam&#8217;s Iraq is Muslim, but he&#8217;s at the opposite end of the ideological spectrum from Al-Qaeda. Everything he stands for is against Al-Qaeda&#8217;s purpose.<br \/>\nSometimes there can be strange bedfellows, but even a leaked intelligence report shows to link between the two.<br \/>\nThe full report is well worth reading. It seems that British Intelligence is deliberately letting information slip out into the public realm so that it can be seen to be behaving in a non-political manner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now this is something I simply don&#8217;t understand. Tony Blair is reported today to still be insisting that the Iraqi regime is somehow (and this is undefined) linked to Al-Qaeda. Now maybe I&#8217;m missing something enormously obvious here, but despite Saddam eveninig saying himself in yesterday&#8217;s interview, that he&#8217;s not linked with them (and if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}