{"id":244613,"date":"2003-12-15T12:06:43","date_gmt":"2003-12-15T17:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2003\/12\/saddam-captured"},"modified":"2003-12-15T12:06:43","modified_gmt":"2003-12-15T17:06:43","slug":"saddam-captured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2003\/12\/saddam-captured","title":{"rendered":"Saddam Captured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The capture of Saddam Hussein, 66, on Saturday brought an end to a massive manhunt by American forces and their allies since their no-holds-barred March 20 &#8220;pre-emptive&#8221; strike against Iraq.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nThe object of an unrelenting search for over eight months, the deposed strongman was found in an underground crawl space in a farmhouse outside hisTikrit hometown.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nWith a $25 million reward promised for his capture, Mr. Hussein reportedly had in his possession US $750,000 and  a loaded gun at his side.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nIn late July, Mr. Hussein&#8217;s two sons were killed by US troops in the northern Iraq city of Mosul after a tipster betrayed their hideout.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nAsked to comment on the capture of their father, Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Public Service, Fred Mitchell said he had nothing to say.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nWith the Bahamas regarded as a possible &#8220;soft target&#8221; for terrorists, there was also no word on how the news may affect the Bahamas&#8217; current alert status.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n<B>By Keva Lightbourne and Jimenita Swain, The Nassau Guardian<\/B><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahamas government makes no comment &#8211; foreign affairs minister, Mitchell says he has nothing to say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}