{"id":916,"date":"2013-11-17T13:44:21","date_gmt":"2013-11-17T13:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innerquests.netstorms.org\/?p=916"},"modified":"2023-07-04T00:08:29","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T00:08:29","slug":"gaddafis-harem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/2013\/11\/17\/gaddafis-harem\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaddafi&#8217;s Harem"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"346\" src=\"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/annickcojean.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/annickcojean.jpg 240w, https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/annickcojean-208x300.jpg 208w, https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/annickcojean-187x270.jpg 187w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p> Gaddafi&#8217;s Harem by Annick Cojean appears to pit the final nails into the coffin of Gaddafi&#8217;s reputation. I haven&#8217;t read the book but have looked at newspaper articles about it. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2474533\/The-terrible-truth-Gaddafis-harem.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mail Online<\/a> has a pretty detailed review. However Linda Housman a contributor to <a href=\"http:\/\/english.pravda.ru\/world\/asia\/28-11-2013\/126265-gaddafi_harem-0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pravda Ru<\/a> suggests that this is a character assassination. Housman presents a decent argument that the West&#8217;s media has used stories of sexual exploitation as propaganda before, as in the false stories that Gaddafi&#8217;s troops were being given Viagra and ordered to rape women. I have no idea where the truth lies in all this but on past form there is good reason to be suspicious of anything coming from mainstream journalists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gaddafi&#8217;s Harem by Annick Cojean appears to pit the final nails into the coffin of Gaddafi&#8217;s reputation. I haven&#8217;t read the book but have looked at newspaper articles about it. The Mail Online has a pretty detailed review. However Linda Housman a contributor to Pravda Ru suggests that this is a character assassination. Housman&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/2013\/11\/17\/gaddafis-harem\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,100],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1329,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions\/1329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}