{"id":9126,"date":"2014-05-07T19:48:20","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T11:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=9126"},"modified":"2014-06-20T00:00:24","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T16:00:24","slug":"in-dramatic-close-to-governments-case-at-nyc-terror-trial-americans-recount-hostage-taking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/05\/07\/in-dramatic-close-to-governments-case-at-nyc-terror-trial-americans-recount-hostage-taking\/","title":{"rendered":"In dramatic close to government&#8217;s case at NYC terror trial, Americans recount hostage taking"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8486\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8486\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/shutterstock_45387220.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8486\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/shutterstock_45387220.jpg\" alt=\"Shutterstock photo \" width=\"500\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/shutterstock_45387220.jpg 500w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/shutterstock_45387220-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8486\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Shutterstock photo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NEW YORK &#8211; A Texas woman shot in the leg during a 1998 attack on tourists in Yemen by extremist Muslims has told her harrowing story to a New York jury at the terrorism trial of an Egyptian cleric.<\/p>\n<p>Margaret Thompson walked with a limp and took the witness stand Tuesday at the trial of Mustafa Kamel Mustafa.<\/p>\n<p>Mustafa is charged with conspiring to support terrorists by supplying a satellite phone to the Yemen hostage takers and by trying to set up a terrorist training camp in Bly, Oregon. He has pleaded not guilty.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson described her two days as a hostage in December 1998. She says one hostage taker told 16 Western hostages &#8220;it&#8217;s goodbye to you all&#8221; and she wondered if she would be killed. Four hostages died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8211; A Texas woman shot in the leg during a 1998 attack on tourists in Yemen by extremist &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":8486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[1063,1261,352],"class_list":["post-9126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-w","tag-nyc","tag-terror","tag-us","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}