{"id":4751,"date":"2012-01-06T19:35:32","date_gmt":"2012-01-07T02:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=4751"},"modified":"2012-01-06T19:35:32","modified_gmt":"2012-01-07T02:35:32","slug":"hezbollah-slams-%e2%80%98us-led%e2%80%99-terror-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=4751","title":{"rendered":"Hezbollah slams \u2018US-led\u2019 terror in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hezbollah slams \u2018US-led\u2019 terror in Iraq<\/strong><br \/>\nBy shiapost &#8211; 5 January, 2011<\/p>\n<p>Hezbollah has strongly condemned a new spate of terrorist attacks in Iraq that killed scores of people and left many more wounded in a single day, Press TV reports.  \u201cA new series of terrorist crimes has been committed by the evil, criminal, black hands against the sons of Iraq, which led to the spread of death and destruction in many cities and the killing and wounding of hundreds of people,\u201d Hezbollah said in a statement on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Lebanese resistance movement blamed on the United States, and described it as a n act of vengeance over Washington\u2019s eventual withdrawal from Iraq after nine years of costly war in the country.  \u201cThese crimes are the new face of the American project of vengeance after the miserable defeat of the occupation forces which led to their humiliating withdrawal from Iraq,\u201d the statement noted.  \u201cThe terrorists who committed these horrible crimes, those who planned and executed, are merely cheap tools in the hands of the Americans,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<p>The Islamic movement called for further solidarity among the Iraqi people and warned them against the \u201cinfernal plot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hezbollah said the grizzly bombings, particularly as some of these blasts targeted pilgrims visiting holy sites, were to create sedition and discord amongst the Iraqi nation in order to serve the foreigners.<\/p>\n<p>At least 45 people were killed on Thursday on the outskirts of Iraq\u2019s southern city of Nassiriya when after a bomb attack targeted a group of Shia pilgrims walking to the holy shrine city of Karbala.  <a href=\"http:\/\/shiapost.com\/?p=10809\" target=\"_blank\">&#8230;more<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"igit_tsb_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crookedbough.com%2F%3Fp%3D4751&amp;text=Hezbollah+slams+%E2%80%98US-led%E2%80%99+terror+in+Iraq&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hezbollah slams \u2018US-led\u2019 terror in Iraq By shiapost &#8211; 5 January, 2011 Hezbollah has strongly condemned a new spate of terrorist attacks in Iraq that killed scores of people and left many more wounded in a single day, Press TV reports. \u201cA new series of terrorist crimes has been committed by the evil, criminal, black <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=4751#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[2298],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4751"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4751"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4753,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4751\/revisions\/4753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}