{"id":1341,"date":"2014-11-10T07:20:41","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T12:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1341"},"modified":"2014-11-10T07:20:41","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T12:20:41","slug":"%e2%80%8b5-nuclear-scientists-assassinated-near-damascus-report-rt-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1341","title":{"rendered":"\u200b5 nuclear scientists assassinated near Damascus \u2013 report \u2014 RT News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/news\/203819-5-scientists-killed-syria\/\">\u200b5 nuclear scientists assassinated near Damascus \u2013 report \u2014 RT News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px;\">Five Syrian nuclear scientists have reportedly been killed by unknown assailants while riding a bus north of Damascus, near the research center where they worked, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports.<\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: baseline; background-color: initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\"><em style=\"vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">\u201cUnidentified attackers murdered five nuclear energy engineers who worked in the scientific research center near the neighborhood of Barzeh, northern Damascus,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px;\">The news agency meanwhile reports that four of the\u00a0<a style=\"vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; -webkit-transition-property: color, text-decoration; -webkit-transition-duration: 0.5s, 0.5s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: initial, initial; -webkit-transition-delay: initial, initial; color: #044faa; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-size: 15px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/syriahroe\/posts\/609353292506346\" target=\"_blank\">atomic engineers<\/a>\u00a0were Syrian, while the other one was Iranian.<\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px;\"><em style=\"vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">\u201cTheir bus was ambushed while they were on their way to the research centre. 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Five Syrian nuclear scientists have reportedly been killed by unknown assailants while riding a bus north of Damascus, near the research center where they worked, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports. \u201cUnidentified attackers murdered five nuclear energy engineers who worked in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[578,997,776],"class_list":["post-1341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-geopolitics","tag-nuclear-energy","tag-nuclear-scientists","tag-syria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1342,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions\/1342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}