{"id":12583,"date":"2010-01-12T15:55:24","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T21:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=12583"},"modified":"2010-01-12T15:55:24","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T21:55:24","slug":"iraq-says-raid-uncovered-a-plot-to-bomb-ministries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=12583","title":{"rendered":"Iraq Says Raid Uncovered a Plot to Bomb Ministries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Timothy Williams, <em>New York Times<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/13\/world\/middleeast\/13iraq.html\">13 January 2010<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>BAGHDAD \u2014 A wide-ranging plot to bomb government ministries and other public places, to be followed by a wave of political assassinations, was uncovered by Iraqi officials, who responded Tuesday by bringing much of the capital to a virtual standstill while security forces conducted raids that netted large quantities of explosives, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>At least 4 suicide car bombers \u2014 and as many as 10 \u2014 were apparently on their way to government buildings Tuesday morning when they were stopped by the police and arrested, the authorities said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/13\/world\/middleeast\/13iraq.html\">Read the article<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Timothy Williams, New York Times, 13 January 2010 BAGHDAD \u2014 A wide-ranging plot to bomb government ministries and other public places, to be followed by a wave of political assassinations, was uncovered by Iraqi officials, who responded Tuesday by &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=12583\">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-12583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-3gX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12583","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=12583"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12585,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12583\/revisions\/12585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}