{"id":44930,"date":"2011-09-26T18:53:40","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T02:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brownpundits.com\/?p=5096"},"modified":"2011-09-26T18:53:40","modified_gmt":"2011-09-27T02:53:40","slug":"the-axis-of-weasel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/26\/the-axis-of-weasel\/","title":{"rendered":"The axis of weasel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/09\/27\/world\/asia\/pakistanis-tied-to-2007-attack-on-americans.html?hp=&#038;pagewanted=print\">Pakistanis Tied to 2007 Border Ambush on Americans<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The attack, in Teri Mangal on May 14, 2007, was kept quiet by Washington, which for much of a decade has seemed to play down or ignore signals that Pakistan would pursue its own interests, or even sometimes behave as an enemy.<\/p>\n<p>The reconstruction of the attack, which several officials suggested was revenge for Afghan or Pakistani deaths at American hands, takes on new relevance given the worsening rupture in relations between Washington and Islamabad, which has often been restrained by Pakistan\u2019s strategic importance.<\/p>\n<p>The details of the ambush indicate that Americans were keenly aware of Pakistan\u2019s sometimes duplicitous role long before Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the Senate last week that Pakistan\u2019s intelligence service was undermining efforts in Afghanistan and had supported insurgents who attacked the American Embassy in Kabul this month.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistanis Tied to 2007 Border Ambush on Americans: The attack, in Teri Mangal on May 14, 2007, was kept quiet by Washington, which for much of a decade has seemed to play down or ignore signals that Pakistan would pursue its own interests, or even sometimes behave as an enemy. The reconstruction of the attack, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44930"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45123,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44930\/revisions\/45123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}