{"id":719,"date":"2004-04-10T00:50:40","date_gmt":"2004-04-10T07:50:40","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-04-10T00:50:40","modified_gmt":"2004-04-10T07:50:40","slug":"americans-missing-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/10\/americans-missing-in-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans missing in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=K5QK5UBPFJYVOCRBAEZSFEY?type=topNews&#038;storyID=4795470&#038;section=news\" target=\"_blank\">Two U.S. Troops, Civilians Missing in Iraq -Official<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Two American troops and an unknown number of civilian contractors are missing in Iraq after an attack on a fuel convoy west of Baghdad, a Defense Department official said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We do have the two U.S. service members unaccounted for, and an unknown number of contractors,&#8221; said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n<p>No other details of those missing were immediately available.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses at the scene of the convoy attack said at least nine people were killed. Several vehicles were ablaze and overturned.<\/p>\n<p>A Reuters photographer on the scene said the convoy included U.S. military vehicles and fuel tankers. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More detail on the incident in question here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/comments.php?id=P712_0_1_0\" target=\"_blank\">Insurgents Hold Highway<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two U.S. Troops, Civilians Missing in Iraq -Official Two American troops and an unknown number of civilian contractors are missing in Iraq after an attack on a fuel convoy west of Baghdad, a Defense Department official said on Friday. &#8220;We do have the two U.S. service members unaccounted for, and an unknown number of contractors,&#8221; [&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-719","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\/719","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=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}