{"id":1486,"date":"2004-11-21T18:12:06","date_gmt":"2004-11-22T01:12:06","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-11-21T18:12:06","modified_gmt":"2004-11-22T01:12:06","slug":"ramadi-ambush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/21\/ramadi-ambush\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramadi Ambush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><I>&#8220;We feel right now that we have, as I mentioned, broken the back of the insurgency. We&#8217;ve taken away this safe haven,&#8221; Lt. Gen. John Sattler told reporters at the Pentagon in a video teleconference from Fallujah.<\/I><\/p>\n<blockquote><p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/common\/story_page\/0,4057,11460426%255E1702,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">GUNMEN ambushed a convoy of Iraqi National Guards in Ramadi<\/a>, killing nine soldiers and wounding 17, local hospital officials said today.<\/p>\n<p>Rocket-wielding guerrillas ordered the men from their vehicles and then gunned them down after holding them up on a main street in broad daylight and forcing them to drive to the outskirts of the city, wounded survivors said.<\/p>\n<p>The attackers then torched the Guards&#8217; two trucks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mmmmkay, then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We feel right now that we have, as I mentioned, broken the back of the insurgency. We&#8217;ve taken away this safe haven,&#8221; Lt. Gen. John Sattler told reporters at the Pentagon in a video teleconference from Fallujah. GUNMEN ambushed a convoy of Iraqi National Guards in Ramadi, killing nine soldiers and wounding 17, local hospital [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1486"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}