{"id":2575,"date":"2026-04-01T19:03:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T19:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/2575\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T19:03:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T19:03:44","slug":"cctv-footage-appears-to-show-moment-us-journalist-is-kidnapped-in-baghdad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/2575\/","title":{"rendered":"CCTV footage appears to show moment US journalist is kidnapped in Baghdad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"CCTV footage appears to show moment US journalist is kidnapped in Baghdad\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lKMNN5YHvg0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nCCTV footage appears to show moment US journalist is kidnapped in Baghdad<br \/>\n<br \/>\nAmerican journalist Shelly Kittleson has been kidnapped in Baghdad by a suspected Iranian-backed Iraqi armed group, the US has said, as regional security deteriorates after the US-Israeli attack on Iran. Police officials in Iraq said Kittleson was seized by four men in civilian clothes and taken in a vehicle. A surveillance video verified and obtained by AP showed a man forcing her into a car on the streets of Baghdad and the car driving off in a matter of seconds.<br \/>\nThe US state department said it was working to ensure her release &#8216;as soon as possible&#8217; <\/p>\n<p> American journalist Shelly Kittleson kidnapped in Iraq, US officials say<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CCTV footage appears to show moment US journalist is kidnapped in Baghdad American journalist Shelly Kittleson has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[1649,5737,5739,272,240,261,38,1072,5740,5258,412,5738,44,178],"class_list":["post-2575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-guardian-news","tag-baghdad","tag-cctv","tag-footage","tag-gdnpfpnewsworld","tag-guardian","tag-guardian-news","tag-iran","tag-iraq","tag-journalist-kidnapped","tag-shelly-kittleson","tag-united-states","tag-us-israeli-attack-on-iran","tag-usa","tag-world"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}