{"id":4850,"date":"2014-09-25T10:30:28","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T10:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=4850"},"modified":"2014-09-25T10:34:12","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T10:34:12","slug":"islamic-state-potted-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=4850","title":{"rendered":"Islamic State: potted history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re having difficulty in understanding what&#8217;s happening with the militants of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria at the moment without going any further back than Bush War II (<em>the overthrow of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saddam_Hussein\">Saddam Hussein<\/a> &#8211; and the roots of the conflicts and tensions in the region do go back to at least the end of World War 1 and the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Treaty_of_Versailles\">Treaty of Versailles<\/a>! Ed.<\/em>) then Aubrey Bailey of Fleet in Hampshire has provided a concise and not too confusing potted guide.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2014\/09\/isis_explained.jpg\" alt=\"image of newspaper letter with the heading Clear as mud\" width=\"408\" height=\"568\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4851\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2014\/09\/isis_explained.jpg 408w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2014\/09\/isis_explained-215x300.jpg 215w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 408px) 100vw, 408px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/notazerosumgame.blogspot.co.uk\/\">Marina S<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re having difficulty in understanding what&#8217;s happening with the militants of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria at the moment without going any further back than Bush War II (the overthrow of Saddam Hussein &#8211; and the roots of the conflicts and tensions in the region do go back to at least the end [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17,15],"tags":[36,22,33,20],"class_list":["post-4850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-oddities","category-politics","tag-comment","tag-language","tag-media-2","tag-politics-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4850"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4853,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4850\/revisions\/4853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}