{"id":719489,"date":"2026-06-06T18:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T18:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/719489\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T18:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T18:26:09","slug":"iraqi-football-player-questioned-for-7-hours-after-arriving-in-us-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/719489\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi football player questioned for 7 hours after arriving in US: Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Berk Kutay Gokmen and Sahin Demir<\/p>\n<p>06 June 2026\u2022Update: 06 June 2026<\/p>\n<p>Iraqi football player Aymen Hussein was questioned for seven hours after arriving in the US city of Chicago ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, Iraqi media reported Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the reports, the incident occurred when the Iraqi national team arrived at Chicago&#8217;s airport.<\/p>\n<p>While the rest of the squad was cleared to leave, striker Aymen Hussein was reportedly held for additional verification and security screening.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the Iraqi delegation worked with airport authorities to resolve the matter, but the team ultimately returned to its base without its leading forward.<\/p>\n<p>Following seven hours of questioning and administrative procedures, Hussein was released and rejoined his teammates, the reports said.<\/p>\n<p>Iraq is set to play its final pre-World Cup friendly against Venezuela on June 9 before beginning its campaign at the 2026 FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Berk Kutay Gokmen and Sahin Demir 06 June 2026\u2022Update: 06 June 2026 Iraqi football player Aymen Hussein was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":719490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,296002,85],"class_list":["post-719489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sitekeywords","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719489","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=719489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/719490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}