{"id":1869,"date":"2005-02-27T20:14:57","date_gmt":"2005-02-28T03:14:57","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-02-27T20:14:57","modified_gmt":"2005-02-28T03:14:57","slug":"two-tales-of-a-capture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/27\/two-tales-of-a-capture\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Tales of a Capture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2005\/WORLD\/meast\/02\/27\/saddam.halfbrother\/\">CNN reports:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Saddam Hussein&#8217;s half-brother, who was a personal adviser during his presidency, was captured in a joint Iraqi and coalition forces operation, Iraqi government officials said Sunday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/n\/a\/2005\/02\/27\/international\/i071011S90.DTL\">Associated Press explains:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Iraqi security forces captured Saddam Hussein&#8217;s half brother and former adviser, government officials said Sunday, dealing a blow to an insurgency that some Iraqi officials claim the former fugitive was helping organize and fund, perhaps from Syria.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Although CNN and many news outlets continue to push this story, the real story has emerged:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story2&#038;u=\/ap\/20050227\/ap_on_re_mi_ea\/iraq\"><B>In an apparent goodwill gesture<\/a>, Syrian authorities captured Saddam&#8217;s half-brother and 29 other officials of the deposed dictator&#8217;s Baath Party in Syria and handed them over to Iraq.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What will those insidious Syrians try next?!<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN reports: Saddam Hussein&#8217;s half-brother, who was a personal adviser during his presidency, was captured in a joint Iraqi and coalition forces operation, Iraqi government officials said Sunday. Associated Press explains: Iraqi security forces captured Saddam Hussein&#8217;s half brother and former adviser, government officials said Sunday, dealing a blow to an insurgency that some Iraqi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"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-1869","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\/1869","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1869"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}