{"id":965,"date":"2003-12-06T14:59:24","date_gmt":"2003-12-06T14:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=965"},"modified":"2003-12-06T14:59:24","modified_gmt":"2003-12-06T14:59:24","slug":"2003-12-6-the-baker-saudi-connection-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=965","title":{"rendered":"The Baker-Saudi connection"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">Don&#8217;t miss TPM&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/week_2003_11_30.html#002275\">eye-opening post<\/a> on President Bush&#8217;s appointment of James Baker as a personal envoy to Iraq to deal with, among other things, with the Saddam regime&#8217;s odious debt. Baker&#8217;s law firm currently represents Saudi Arabia, which was a major creditor to Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war, and also sits on the board of the Carlyle Group, which advises Iraq on financial matters. Just follow the links.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">Don&#8217;t miss TPM&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/week_2003_11_30.html#002275\">eye-opening post<\/a> on President Bush&#8217;s appointment of James Baker as a personal envoy to Iraq to deal with, among other things, with the Saddam regime&#8217;s odious debt. Baker&#8217;s law firm currently represents Saudi Arabia, which was a major creditor to Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war, and also sits on the board of the Carlyle Group, which advises Iraq on financial matters. Just follow the links.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[26,171],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965"}],"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=965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}