{"id":2744,"date":"2008-10-23T15:12:11","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T15:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2744"},"modified":"2008-10-23T15:12:11","modified_gmt":"2008-10-23T15:12:11","slug":"2008-10-23-the-rise-of-the-awakenings-model-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2744","title":{"rendered":"The rise of the &#8220;Awakenings&#8221; model"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">Is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/10\/22\/AR2008102203708.html?hpid=topnews\">this<\/a> really a good idea:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pakistan plans to arm tens of thousands of anti-Taliban tribal fighters in its western border region in hopes &#8212; shared by the U.S. military &#8212; that the nascent militias can replicate the tribal &#8220;Awakening&#8221; movement that proved decisive in the battle against al-Qaeda in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>The militias, called lashkars, will receive Chinese-made AK-47 assault rifles and other small arms, a purchase arranged during a visit to Beijing this month by Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, Pakistani officials said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Do you really want to pump in tons of small arms into an area of great lawlessness and tribal rivalry?<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">Is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/10\/22\/AR2008102203708.html?hpid=topnews\">this<\/a> really a good idea:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pakistan plans to arm tens of thousands of anti-Taliban tribal fighters in its western border region in hopes &#8212; shared by the U.S. military &#8212; that the nascent militias can replicate the tribal &#8220;Awakening&#8221; movement that proved decisive in the battle against al-Qaeda in Iraq.<br \/>\nThe militias, called lashkars, will receive Chinese-made AK-47 assault rifles and other small arms, a purchase arranged during a visit to Beijing this month by Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, Pakistani officials said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Do you really want to pump in tons of small arms into an area of great lawlessness and tribal rivalry?<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[70,226],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2744"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}