{"id":26316,"date":"2018-12-20T19:25:03","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T19:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=26316"},"modified":"2018-12-20T19:25:03","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T19:25:03","slug":"egypt-acquits-43-in-ngo-foreign-funding-retrial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=26316","title":{"rendered":"Egypt acquits 43 in NGO foreign funding retrial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"68\">\n<p>\nSYDNEY: Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison made a pre-Christmas visit to hundreds of troops in Iraq, telling them he wanted to say thank you from \u201cone Australian to another.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nBut Morrison canceled a planned visit to Afghanistan on the advice of the defense force chief due to operational security reasons.<\/p>\n<p>\nMorrison traveled to Iraq on Wednesday to meet special forces soldiers and other Australian military personnel who are training the Iraqi Army to combat the Islamic State group. It was the conservative prime minister\u2019s first visit to the Middle East since he took the top job in August.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cI understand it\u2019s a sacrifice. I understand it\u2019s a big thing to be away from your family at this time of year,\u201d Morrison told troops at the Taji military complex north of Baghdad. \u201cAnd that\u2019s why I\u2019ve decided to come just to say \u2018thank you\u2019 from one Australian to another.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nMorrison broke bread with hundreds of soldiers across Iraq from before dawn until after dark. He stressed that he would honor their contributions long after their active service ended.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe said that for many troops, it would be the first Christmas away from their families and friends, while others had endured the tyranny of distance before.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cOn behalf of my family, to you and your families, I want to say thank you very much for your service,\u201d Morrison said. \u201cBut I also want to thank you as a prime minister, as the leader of the government, as a member of the Australian Parliament, on behalf of our entire nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nThere are currently about 800 Australian soldiers deployed in Iraq, including about 300 who are involved in Task Force Taji.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SYDNEY: Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison made a pre-Christmas visit to hundreds of troops in Iraq, telling them he wanted to say thank you from \u201cone Australian to another.\u201d But Morrison canceled a planned visit to Afghanistan on the advice of the defense force chief due to operational security reasons. Morrison traveled to Iraq on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":26317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}