{"id":114,"date":"2004-05-25T15:01:20","date_gmt":"2004-05-25T22:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=114"},"modified":"2004-05-25T15:01:20","modified_gmt":"2004-05-25T22:01:20","slug":"moo-mishkilleh-ana-sahafi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/25\/moo-mishkilleh-ana-sahafi\/","title":{"rendered":"“Moo mishkilleh, ana sahafi,”"},"content":{"rendered":"

This man<\/a> is my new hero. [Stolen from Saheli Datta<\/a>]<\/p>\n

My only chance was to stay calm, I told myself.<\/p>\n

“Moo mishkilleh, ana sahafi,” I shouted — pidgin Arabic for “don’t worry, I’m a journalist.”<\/p>\n

It didn’t make any difference. I was frog-marched through the throng at a rapid clip, an Arab TV crew filming what was shaping up to be a juicy scoop —<\/p>\n

a live execution of a Westerner.<\/p>\n

Mindful that these might be the last shots the world ever saw of me, I did my best to look stoic. My life didn’t flash before my eyes, although a fist from someone in the crowd did, punching me in the head and ruining my attempts at serenity. <\/p>\n

. . . <\/p>\n

By the time we reached our hotel, the pain in my posterior had long since gone. Reaching into my left trouser pocket, where a patch of blood was slowly spreading, my translator pulled out a small piece of shrapnel that I assumed was the only thing that had hit me.<\/p>\n

Were it not for the advice of a BBC TV crew that had also been at the scene, I might never have bothered going to a hospital.<\/p>\n

Ten hours later, a medic from the British Army’s field hospital at nearby Shaibah Airfield set the record straight. As an X-ray photograph showed, the shrapnel was merely a fragment of a full-size bullet that had lodged perilously close to my hip bone. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This man is my new hero. [Stolen from Saheli Datta] My only chance was to stay calm, I told myself. “Moo mishkilleh, ana sahafi,” I shouted — pidgin Arabic for “don’t worry, I’m a journalist.” It didn’t make any difference. I was frog-marched through the throng at a rapid clip, an Arab TV crew filming what was shaping up to be a juicy scoop — a live execution of a Westerner. Mindful that these might be the last shots the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-journalism","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-1Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}