{"id":984,"date":"2005-02-28T19:02:06","date_gmt":"2005-02-28T18:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2005\/02\/28\/look_at_the_starey-eyed_terrorist"},"modified":"2005-02-28T19:02:06","modified_gmt":"2005-02-28T18:02:06","slug":"look_at_the_starey-eyed_terrorist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2005\/02\/28\/look_at_the_starey-eyed_terrorist","title":{"rendered":"Look at the starey-eyed terrorist!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/saajidbadat203.jpg\" alt=\"A scary picture of Saajid Badat, the monster from Gloucester\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The BBC reports that a guy from Gloucester called Sajid Badat <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/england\/gloucestershire\/4304223.stm\">has been found guilty<\/a> of conspiring to carry out a shoe-bomber type attack on a plane from Amsterdam to the USA.  Let&#8217;s get all this straight: this man agreed to carry out the bombing, booked the flight, then had second thoughts, but the law makes you a criminal if you agree to commit a crime, even if you then pull out.<\/p>\n<p>This is a trick the press commonly play with pictures of paedophiles, and people they want to look bad.  They take a series of pictures, and keep the one which looks the most weird.  But you&#8217;d think they would take into account the fact that this man may have turned his back on terrorism before even carrying out a single act of terrorism before using this not-so-subtle means of character assassination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC reports that a guy from Gloucester called Sajid Badat has been found guilty of conspiring to carry out a shoe-bomber type attack on a plane from Amsterdam to the USA. Let&#8217;s get&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-fS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}