{"id":43796,"date":"2015-03-06T23:17:28","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T23:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=43796"},"modified":"2015-03-06T23:17:28","modified_gmt":"2015-03-06T23:17:28","slug":"the-road-to-samarra-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=43796","title":{"rendered":"The road to Samarra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; parroting Somerset Maugham in the context of suicide ops ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/SPEC-Samarra11.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/SPEC-Samarra11.png\" alt=\"SPEC-Samarra1\" width=\"602\" height=\"915\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43839\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/SPEC-Samarra11.png 602w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/SPEC-Samarra11-197x300.png 197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The story [lower panel] is <strong>Somerset Maugham<\/strong>&#8216;s version of the tale..<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>No news from <strong>Samarra <\/strong>since Feb 28th, when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rferl.org\/content\/islamic-state-samarra-iraq-attack\/26874666.html\">Radio Free Europe reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>IS Militants Attack Samarra<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Militants from the radical group Islamic State (IS) have launched an attack on the northern Iraq city of Samarra, where security forces and Shi&#8217;ite militia groups have been assembling ahead of an anticipated offensive against IS positions.<\/p>\n<p>Suicide bombers detonated their explosives-laden vehicles in the northern part of Samarra early February 28 and a man in a Humvee also packed with explosives blew up his vehicle in the southern part of the city.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Those who actually volunteer for these suicide missions, however, will find their path to <strong>Death in Samarra<\/strong> way more direct.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; parroting Somerset Maugham in the context of suicide ops ] . The story [lower panel] is Somerset Maugham&#8216;s version of the tale.. ** No news from Samarra since Feb 28th, when Radio Free Europe reported: IS Militants Attack Samarra Militants from the radical group Islamic State (IS) have launched an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,627,45,1078,1047,652,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-doublequotes","category-iraq","category-is","category-isis","category-literature","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43796"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43840,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43796\/revisions\/43840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}