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British troops in Basra have hooked up a PA system, so that, for the first time in fifteen years (since it was forbidden by the Baath party), the local imam can call the people to prayer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(via Command Post<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

British troops in Basra have hooked up a PA system, so that, for the first time in fifteen years (since it was forbidden by the Baath party), the local imam…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitical-brouhaha"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3828,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/03\/24\/cruise_missiles.html","url_meta":{"origin":488,"position":0},"title":"Cruise missiles?","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 24-Mar-03 9:10am","format":false,"excerpt":"The term \"cruise missile\" always seems oxymoronic. 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