{"id":362,"date":"2008-08-27T17:46:47","date_gmt":"2008-08-27T16:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=362"},"modified":"2013-04-24T18:43:57","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T18:43:57","slug":"video-of-saddams-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/video-of-saddams-train\/","title":{"rendered":"Video of Saddam&#8217;s train"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC has a short <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/middle_east\/7584633.stm\">video of the inside of Saddam Hussein&#8217;s personal train<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe luxury train belonging to former ruler of Iraq, Saddam Hussein is to return to service. <\/p>\n<p>Since the 1970s, the French-built train has been kept in a secret place in Baghdad. <\/p>\n<p>The 23-carriage train will start to shuttle passengers between Baghdad and the southern city of Basra from September.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The &#8220;secret place&#8221; where the train was kept was Baghdad Central station, according to a report published in <cite>The Times<\/cite> on February 9 2008, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/world\/iraq\/article3338388.ece\"><q>alongside Platform 8, long since stripped of their gold and silver fittings<\/q><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC has a short video of the inside of Saddam Hussein&#8217;s personal train. The luxury train belonging to former ruler of Iraq, Saddam Hussein is to return to service. Since the 1970s, the French-built train has been kept in a secret place in Baghdad. The 23-carriage train will start to shuttle passengers between Baghdad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[38,95],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2653,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions\/2653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}