{"id":1267,"date":"2011-03-04T12:46:51","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T12:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.news.clicdublin.ie\/?p=1267"},"modified":"2011-03-04T12:48:11","modified_gmt":"2011-03-04T12:48:11","slug":"dutch-soldiers-held-in-libya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpressdemo.eu\/?p=1267","title":{"rendered":"Dutch soldiers held in Libya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dutch newspapers have reported that\u00a0 three Dutch soldiers have been held in Libya since last Sunday when they were carrying out a mission to evacuate two civilians.<\/p>\n<p>The three soldiers were captured by Libyan forces after they had travelled by helicopter from the Dutch navy ship Tromp to the city of Sirte. They had wanted to pick up two people, one of whom was Dutch.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1307\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1307\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.clicnews.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Reuters+Egyptian+refugees+3Mar11+4801.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1307\" title=\"Reuters+Egyptian+refugees+3Mar11+480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clicnews.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Reuters+Egyptian+refugees+3Mar11+4801-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1307\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Egyptians sit next to their belongings as they wait for a bus to leave Libya<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Contact was made between Dutch authorities and Libyan officials. This led to the two evacuees being handed to the Dutch embassy in the capital Tripoli. They have left Libya now.<\/p>\n<p>The soldiers, however, have not\u00a0yet been released. &#8220;It&#8217;s a terrible issue,&#8221; said Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, &#8220;Furthermore, I cannot say anything about it, in the interest of the captured soldiers in Libya. Only when the soldiers are back home safely, I can give more details.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"> <\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dutch newspapers have reported that\u00a0 three Dutch soldiers have been held in Libya since last Sunday when they were carrying out a mission to evacuate two civilians. The three soldiers were captured by Libyan forces after they had travelled by helicopter from the Dutch navy ship Tromp to the city of Sirte. They had wanted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpressdemo.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpressdemo.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpressdemo.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpressdemo.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpressdemo.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpressdemo.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpressdemo.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpressdemo.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpressdemo.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}