{"id":262,"date":"2003-04-09T17:55:14","date_gmt":"2003-04-09T17:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2003\/04\/bagdhad_falls\/"},"modified":"2003-04-09T17:55:14","modified_gmt":"2003-04-09T17:55:14","slug":"bagdhad_falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2003\/04\/bagdhad_falls\/","title":{"rendered":"Bagdhad &#8220;Falls&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/middle_east\/2933707.stm\">Baghdad has &#8220;fallen&#8221;<\/a>. We got the no doubt iconic image of Saddam&#8217;s statue being torn down (in fact it made fascinating viewing as the TV news channels covered it all afternoon).<br \/>\nThere is still the question of where Saddam is. I can see him being on the run for quite some time. I can also see small acts of violence happening for quite some time.<br \/>\nWithout any law and order in the country, there is a lot of anarchy with looting of government property, and even journalists are being mugged in the streets.<br \/>\nThe other night the Americans bombed a restaurant that they thought Saddam was in. Intelligence is now <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/middle_east\/2928377.stm\">suggesting<\/a> that he got away before the bomb hit. So exactly how many chefs and waiters can we bomb until we catch him? There must be an acceptable level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Baghdad has &#8220;fallen&#8221;. We got the no doubt iconic image of Saddam&#8217;s statue being torn down (in fact it made fascinating viewing as the TV news channels covered it all afternoon). There is still the question of where Saddam is. I can see him being on the run for quite some time. I can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}