{"id":358,"date":"2003-12-22T03:18:52","date_gmt":"2003-12-22T08:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2003\/12\/another_saddam_captured_by_kur\/"},"modified":"2003-12-22T03:18:52","modified_gmt":"2003-12-22T08:18:52","slug":"another_saddam_captured_by_kur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/12\/another_saddam_captured_by_kur\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Saddam Captured by Kurds Article"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/articles\/2003\/12\/21\/1071941612613.html\">We Got Him: Kurds Say They Caught Saddam<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Western media in Baghdad were electrified by the Iranian agency&#8217;s revelation, but as reports of the arrest built, they relied almost exclusively on accounts from US military and intelligence organisations, starting with the words of the US-appointed administrator of Iraq, Paul Bremer: &#8220;Ladies and gentlemen: we got &#8216;im&#8221;.<br \/>\n. . .<br \/>\nLittle attention was paid to a line in Pentagon briefings that some of the Kurdish militia might have been in on what was described as a &#8220;joint operation&#8221;; or to a statement by Ahmed Chalabi, head of the Iraq National Congress, which said that Qusrat and his PUK forces had provided vital information and more.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I link; you decide.  There&#8217;s certainly a lot of smoke here, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/12\/another_saddam_captured_by_kur\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Another Saddam Captured by Kurds Article\"><p>&#8220;We Got Him: Kurds Say They Caught Saddam&#8220; The Western media in Baghdad were electrified by the Iranian agency&#8217;s revelation, but as reports of the arrest built, they relied almost exclusively on accounts from US military and intelligence organisations, starting with the words of the US-appointed administrator of Iraq, Paul Bremer: &#8220;Ladies and gentlemen: we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-358","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}