{"id":1542,"date":"2010-10-31T22:35:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-31T22:35:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-11-01T05:57:59","modified_gmt":"2010-11-01T05:57:59","slug":"iraq-storms-church-held-by-gunmen-frees-hostages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/iraq-storms-church-held-by-gunmen-frees-hostages\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq storms church held by gunmen, frees hostages"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span class=\"location\">BAGHDAD<\/span> | <span class=\"timestamp\">Sun Oct 31, 2010 2:27pm EDT<\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><strong><span style=\"font-size: small\">Oct 31 (Reuters) &#8211;<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: small\"> Iraqi police stormed a church taken over by suspected al Qaeda-linked gunmen on Sunday and released the Catholic hostages that had been held inside, Iraqi and U.S. officials said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\">&quot;The operation has finished and we released all the hostages,&quot; said Brigadier General Ali Ibrahim, commander of the federal police in southeastern Baghdad. U.S. military officials, who watched the rescue operation from cameras in hovering helicopters, confirmed the report.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\">Younadam Kana, a Christian lawmaker, said that parishioners who had called him from inside the church had estimated that the gunmen had taken more than 50 hostages.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">(Reporting by <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/search\/journalist.php?edition=us&amp;n=waleed.ibrahim&amp;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">Waleed Ibrahim<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"> and Muhanad Mohammed; Writing by <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/search\/journalist.php?edition=us&amp;n=michael.christie&amp;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">Michael Christie<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">; Editing by <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/search\/journalist.php?edition=us&amp;n=alison.williams&amp;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">Alison Williams<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">Source: reuters.com<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAGHDAD | Sun Oct 31, 2010 2:27pm EDT &nbsp; Oct 31 (Reuters) &#8211; Iraqi police stormed a church taken over by suspected al Qaeda-linked gunmen on Sunday and released the Catholic hostages that had been held inside, Iraqi and U.S. officials said. &quot;The operation has finished and we released all the hostages,&quot; said Brigadier General &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-assyrian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}