{"id":9926,"date":"2022-06-07T13:00:14","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T13:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/iraq-sentences-retired-british-geologist-to-15-years-for-attempted-smuggling\/"},"modified":"2022-06-07T13:00:14","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T13:00:14","slug":"iraq-sentences-retired-british-geologist-to-15-years-for-attempted-smuggling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/?p=9926","title":{"rendered":"Iraq Sentences Retired British Geologist To 15 Years For Attempted Smuggling"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PZNDxfvBqgU\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Jim Fitton, 66, was sentenced on Monday by an Iraqi court to 15 years in prison on charges of attempting to smuggle artifacts out of the country. He and his family argued that Fitton had no criminal intent.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb Subscribe to NBC News: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/nbcnews.to\/SubscribeToNBC\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/nbcnews.to\/SubscribeToNBC<\/a><br \/>\n\u00bb Watch more NBC video: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/MoreNBCNews\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/MoreNBCNews<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NBC News Digital is a collection of innovative and powerful news brands that deliver compelling, diverse and engaging news stories. NBC News Digital features NBCNews.com, MSNBC.com, TODAY.com, Nightly News, Meet the Press, Dateline, and the existing apps and digital extensions of these respective properties.  We deliver the best in breaking news, live video coverage, original journalism and segments from your favorite NBC News Shows.<\/p>\n<p>Connect with NBC News Online!<br \/>\nNBC News App: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/smart.link\/5d0cd9df61b80\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/smart.link\/5d0cd9df61b80<\/a><br \/>\nBreaking News Alerts: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/link.nbcnews.com\/join\/5cj\/breaking-news-signup?cid=sm_npd_nn_yt_bn-clip_190621\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/link.nbcnews.com\/join\/5cj\/breaking-news-signup?cid=sm_npd_nn_yt_bn-clip_190621<\/a><br \/>\nVisit NBCNews.Com: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/nbcnews.to\/ReadNBC\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/nbcnews.to\/ReadNBC<\/a><br \/>\nFind NBC News on Facebook: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/nbcnews.to\/LikeNBC\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/nbcnews.to\/LikeNBC<\/a><br \/>\nFollow NBC News on Twitter: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/nbcnews.to\/FollowNBC\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/nbcnews.to\/FollowNBC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>#JimFitton #Iraq #smuggling<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Fitton, 66, was sentenced on Monday by an Iraqi court to 15 years in prison on charges of attempting to smuggle artifacts out of the country. He and his family argued that Fitton had no criminal intent. \u00bb Subscribe&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":9927,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5043],"class_list":["post-9926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos","tag-nbc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}