{"id":939,"date":"2011-05-18T21:06:26","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T01:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/?p=939"},"modified":"2011-05-18T21:06:33","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T01:06:33","slug":"non-muslim-mercenaries-in-the-uae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/?p=939","title":{"rendered":"Non-Muslim Mercenaries in the UAE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2011\/5\/18\/jeremy_scahill_on_blackwater_founder_erik\">Why isn&#8217;t this stuff in the major media?<\/a> It&#8217;s because advertisers don&#8217;t want it. Therefore, you need to start getting news from ad-free sources. The story about the UAE contracting with Blackwater&#8217;s founder to provide specifically non-Muslim mercenaries to provide crowd control is absolutely sickening.<\/p>\n<p>The upshot of this is that the UAE anticipates pro-democracy rallies and has chosen to put them down with brutality. The USA supports this move. Many of the mercenaries for the 800-man unit are from Colombia and South Africa, areas with a history of extralegal killings and rogue paramilitary forces. The guys the UAE is bringing in are mass-murdering thugs that will be ready and willing to pour hot lead into rioting crowds of enslaved foreign workers &#8211; and the USA is ready to smile on that sort of thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why isn&#8217;t this stuff in the major media? It&#8217;s because advertisers don&#8217;t want it. Therefore, you need to start getting news from ad-free sources. The story about the UAE contracting with Blackwater&#8217;s founder to provide specifically non-Muslim mercenaries to provide crowd control is absolutely sickening. The upshot of this is that the UAE anticipates pro-democracy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hellholes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=939"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":941,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions\/941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}