{"id":856,"date":"2004-05-02T13:41:51","date_gmt":"2004-05-02T20:41:51","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-05-02T13:41:51","modified_gmt":"2004-05-02T20:41:51","slug":"iraq-hostage-escapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/02\/iraq-hostage-escapes\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq Hostage &#8220;Escapes&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyherald.com\/cook\/main_story.asp?intID=38109273\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Hamill wandered up to an American patrol in Balad, between Baghdad and Tikrit today.<\/a>  The press accounts are calling it an &#8220;apparent escape&#8221; though the demand by the mujahiden originally was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/worldlatest\/story\/0,1280,-3964251,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">for the Marines to end the siege of Fallujah,<\/a> so I expect that it will come out that he was released after the Marine withdrawal in much the same manner as the POWs held by the Iraqis during the invasion.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/updates\/foundsoldiers_04-13-03.html\" target=\"_blank\">They also wandered up to the American soldiers on patrol in the same area after their release.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Hamill wandered up to an American patrol in Balad, between Baghdad and Tikrit today. The press accounts are calling it an &#8220;apparent escape&#8221; though the demand by the mujahiden originally was for the Marines to end the siege of Fallujah, so I expect that it will come out that he was released after the [&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-856","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\/856","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=856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}