{"id":230,"date":"2009-06-01T13:40:15","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T20:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/?p=230"},"modified":"2009-06-01T15:12:17","modified_gmt":"2009-06-01T22:12:17","slug":"coincidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/?p=230","title":{"rendered":"Coincidence?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From time.com 14, May 2009:<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-231\" title=\"picture-1\" src=\"http:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/picture-1.png\" alt=\"picture-1\" width=\"541\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/picture-1.png 541w, https:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/picture-1-300x163.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 541px) 100vw, 541px\" \/>Last week I was randomly reading a piece in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/world\/article\/0,8599,1898251-3,00.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Time<\/em><\/a> on Pakistan by Aryn Baker when I skimmed across something strange. In early April, I wrote a story on the <em>Huffington Post<\/em>\u00a0critical of further military aid to Pakistan. Subsequently, I received a bizarre crank call from a man claiming to be a Pakistani doctor in London who accused of being either an &#8220;Indian spy&#8221; or a &#8220;Jew&#8221; or perhaps both in the pay of the Indian government. When pressed, he told me his name was &#8220;Dr. Ahmed&#8221; and that he called me (obviously finding my # on Google)in order to intimidate and he was (obviously) furious about what I had written. I&#8217;m reading this article\u00a0\u00a0and the tone of this seemingly random quote would seem to be from the same (crazy) source. I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s more than one angry, paranoid Dr. Ahmed in <strong>Londonistan<\/strong> these days but I think it may be the same paranoid kook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From time.com 14, May 2009:Last week I was randomly reading a piece in Time on Pakistan by Aryn Baker when I skimmed across something strange. 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