{"id":245279,"date":"2004-04-20T12:52:57","date_gmt":"2004-04-20T16:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2004\/04\/shooting-incident-an-assassination-attempt"},"modified":"2004-04-20T12:52:57","modified_gmt":"2004-04-20T16:52:57","slug":"shooting-incident-an-assassination-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2004\/04\/shooting-incident-an-assassination-attempt","title":{"rendered":"Shooting Incident An Assassination Attempt?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She and security aide Sgt. Michelet Meronard, who was also hit by gunfire, &#8220;provided rebel forces with two good targets&#8221;, according to outspoken Rodney Moncur, leader of the Worker&#8217;s party.<br \/>\n<P>He alleged that Mrs. Newry is a cousin of the deposed Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide and that Sgt. Meronard is the son of a refugee who fled Haiti during the Duvalier regime.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nTherefore, said Mr. Moncur, both were viewed as targets by Haiti&#8217;s interim rebel government, which took over when Aristide was forced out of the country some weeks ago.<br \/>\n<P><B>Source: The Tribune<\/B><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A political activist claimed yesterday that the shooting of the ambassador&#8217;s wife, Francoise Newry in Haiti over the weekend was an assassination attempt by rebels.<\/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-245279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245279","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=245279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}