{"id":128,"date":"2004-07-25T02:20:50","date_gmt":"2004-07-25T07:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=128"},"modified":"2004-08-27T11:52:38","modified_gmt":"2004-08-27T16:52:38","slug":"new-allegation-of-detainee-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=128","title":{"rendered":"New Allegation of Detainee Abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just wanted to make sure this story got some play.  Don&#8217;t count on it reaching the front page of the <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">New York Times<\/span> or <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Washington Post<\/span>, though, as it concerns an <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;cid=519&#038;ncid=718&#038;e=8&#038;u=\/ap\/20040725\/ap_on_re_us\/detention_complaint\" target=\"_blank\">American citizen detained in Egypt<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A California man who was detained in Egypt for nearly a week says he was beaten and questioned before authorities released him without explanation.<\/p>\n<p>Abdul Ghafoor Mahboob, a naturalized U.S. citizen who lives in the Los Angeles suburb of Culver City, said he was repeatedly beaten with a stick on his thighs and punched in the stomach and head.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Without my prayers, I would have gone crazy,&#8221; Mahboob told the Los Angeles Times in a phone interview from London on Friday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Won&#8217;t get much play without photos of Abdul on a leash, I&#8217;m betting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just wanted to make sure this story got some play. Don&#8217;t count on it reaching the front page of the New York Times or Washington Post, though, as it concerns an American citizen detained in Egypt. A California man who was detained in Egypt for nearly a week says he was beaten and questioned before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}