{"id":9860,"date":"2006-10-19T08:18:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-19T15:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/10\/19\/target-date-of-opportunity.html"},"modified":"2006-10-19T08:18:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-19T15:18:00","slug":"target_date_of_opportunit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/19\/target_date_of_opportunit.html","title":{"rendered":"Target Date of Opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"

I mention this article only because I recall the hoot and holler over the prospect of US military action during Ramadan<\/a> back in 2001 and 2002 …<\/p>\n

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The U.S. military spokesman says there has been a 22 percent jump in attacks during Ramadan and the drive to secure Baghdad has “not met our overall expectations.”<\/span> The spike in violence during the Islamic holy month of fasting was “disheartening” and the Americans were working with Iraqi authorities to “refocus” security measures, Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell said.<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Since, after all, any sort of violence during Ramadan would be a horrible offense to Islam and Muslims world-wide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I mention this article only because I recall the hoot and holler over the prospect of US military action during Ramadan back in 2001 and 2002 … The U.S. military…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_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":[10,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitical-brouhaha","category-religion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1018,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/10\/24\/the_moral_low_g.html","url_meta":{"origin":9860,"position":0},"title":"The moral low ground","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 24-Oct-01 5:26pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Taking the moral low ground The Taliban are, according to refugees, hiding military equipment in civilian neighborhoods, around mosques, etc. And these are the folks screaming bloody murder when any...","rel":"","context":"In "Geopolitical Brouhaha"","block_context":{"text":"Geopolitical Brouhaha","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/geopolitical-brouhaha"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":750,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/11\/17\/ramadan.html","url_meta":{"origin":9860,"position":1},"title":"Ramadan","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 17-Nov-01 12:10pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Ramadan in Afghanistan Rather than the bloody horror that was being predicted a few weeks ago, it sounds like the people of Kabul are able to contemplate their own relationship...","rel":"","context":"In "Geopolitical Brouhaha"","block_context":{"text":"Geopolitical Brouhaha","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/geopolitical-brouhaha"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":834,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/11\/10\/bombing_during.html","url_meta":{"origin":9860,"position":2},"title":"Bombing during Ramadan","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 10-Nov-01 9:43am","format":false,"excerpt":"Will Al Qua'eda promise to cease terror operations during Lent? 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