{"id":1185,"date":"2012-01-07T04:57:10","date_gmt":"2012-01-07T04:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2012\/01\/07\/iraqi-torture-scandal-touches-highest-levels-of\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:29:21","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:29:21","slug":"iraqi-torture-scandal-touches-highest-levels-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2012\/01\/07\/iraqi-torture-scandal-touches-highest-levels-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi Torture Scandal Touches Highest Levels of NATO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a style=\"font-weight:bold;font-size:16px\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/946772563\/iraqi-torture-scandal-touches-highest-levels-of-nato\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scoop.it<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rights &amp; Liberties<\/a><br \/>A scandal unfolding in Denmark over the transfer of Iraqi prisoners by Danish forces to Iraq authorities, even as they knew they would be tortured, threatens to implicate the current Secretary General of NATO Anders Fogh Rasmussen, formerly prime minister of Denmark from 2001-2009.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/node\/11059\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Via truth-out.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Scoop.it &#8211; Rights &amp; LibertiesA scandal unfolding in Denmark over the transfer of Iraqi prisoners by Danish forces to Iraq authorities, even as they knew they would be tortured, threatens to implicate the current Secretary General of NATO Anders &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2012\/01\/07\/iraqi-torture-scandal-touches-highest-levels-of\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1214,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/12\/26\/mortars-hit-iranian-dissident-camp-in-iraq-iraqi\/","url_meta":{"origin":1185,"position":0},"title":"Mortars hit Iranian dissident camp in Iraq: Iraqi army","author":"aslam","date":"December 26, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - 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