{"id":12349,"date":"2009-12-31T10:19:44","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T16:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=12349"},"modified":"2009-12-31T10:19:44","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T16:19:44","slug":"uk-plays-down-report-iran-directed-hostage-taking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=12349","title":{"rendered":"UK plays down report Iran directed hostage-taking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LONDON (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE5BU12520091231\">Reuters<\/a>)<\/strong> &#8211; Britain played down a report on Thursday that Iran masterminded the kidnapping in Iraq of a British man held hostage for more than 2-1\/2 years, saying there was no firm evidence of direct Iranian involvement.<\/p>\n<p>The Guardian newspaper said computer expert Peter Moore and his four bodyguards were snatched in an operation led by Iran&#8217;s Revolutionary Guards Corps.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper said its year-long investigation also found that Moore, who was released on Wednesday, and his guards were taken to Iran within a day of being kidnapped by militants in Baghdad in May 2007.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE5BU12520091231\">Read the report<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (Reuters) &#8211; Britain played down a report on Thursday that Iran masterminded the kidnapping in Iraq of a British man held hostage for more than 2-1\/2 years, saying there was no firm evidence of direct Iranian involvement. The Guardian &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=12349\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-3db","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12349"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12351,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12349\/revisions\/12351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}