{"id":259765,"date":"2016-08-03T15:37:10","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T15:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/british-jets-attack-former-saddam-palace-in-mosul\/"},"modified":"2016-08-03T15:37:10","modified_gmt":"2016-08-03T15:37:10","slug":"british-jets-attack-former-saddam-palace-in-mosul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/british-jets-attack-former-saddam-palace-in-mosul\/","title":{"rendered":"British jets attack former Saddam palace in Mosul"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>British warplanes have targeted one of Iraq\u2019s former dictator Saddam Hussein\u2019s palaces in the northern\u00a0city of Mosul, the UK Ministry of Defense says.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to a statement by the ministry on Wednesday, two Tornado warplanes from the Royal Air Force carried out the attack on August 1, as part of a multinational squadron tasked with destroying the Daesh-controlled palace.<\/p>\n<p>The compound, located near the Tigris River, was used by the Takfiri group \u201cas a major headquarters and training center for foreign terrorist recruits,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n<p>It was one of the 50 luxury mansions that Saddam built across the Arab country during his 24-year reign. The Mosul palace featured man-made waterfalls and housed American military personnel during the 2003 US invasion of Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, the fortified complex also included more discreet outbuildings that were used by Daesh for internal security and repression.<\/p>\n<p>The Tornado jets\u00a0were reportedly fitted&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/08\/03\/478308\/UK-Saddam-palace-Mosul-Iraq-RAF\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British warplanes have targeted one of Iraq\u2019s former dictator Saddam Hussein\u2019s palaces in the northern\u00a0city of Mosul, the UK Ministry of Defense says. According to a statement by the ministry on Wednesday, two Tornado warplanes from the Royal Air Force carried out the attack on August 1, as part of a multinational squadron tasked with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-259765","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}