{"id":48823,"date":"2025-08-06T21:54:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T21:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/48823\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T21:54:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T21:54:08","slug":"today-in-history-august-7-saddam-hussein-kills-son-in-laws-after-daughters-defect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/48823\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in History &#8211; August 7: Saddam Hussein kills son-in-laws after daughters defect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In February intermediaries from the dictator convinced the four that all was forgiven and they would be granted a pardon if they returned home.<\/p>\n<p>But when they were back in Iraq, the couples were forced to divorce.<\/p>\n<p>The al-Majid brothers would be dead less than a day later.<\/p>\n<p>According to some accounts, they were killed after a 13-hour firefight. \ufeffRaghdad Hussein instead claimed they were executed by military officer Ali Hassan al-Majid, better known as Chemical Ali.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In February intermediaries from the dictator convinced the four that all was forgiven and they would be granted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-48823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}