{"id":33804,"date":"2013-01-25T11:05:59","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T15:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=33804"},"modified":"2013-01-25T11:05:59","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T15:05:59","slug":"a-small-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=33804","title":{"rendered":"A Small Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chalk up another small victory in the GWOT.\u00a0 The #2 guy for al-Qaeda in Yemen, Saeed al-Shihri, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2013\/01\/24\/al-qaeda-no-2-in-yemen-dies-report-says\/\">has apparently died of wounds<\/a> received in a US missile attack in Yemen in October 2012.\u00a0 He had been in a coma since.\u00a0 The precise date of his death was not given.<\/p>\n<p>al-Shihri was a Saudi native.\u00a0 He spent 6 years at GITMO.\u00a0 He was released back to Saudi authorities and processed through the Saudi government\u2019s \u201crehabilitation\u201d program.\u00a0 Shortly afterward completing that program, he went to Yemen and rejoined al-Qaeda.\u00a0 He became the al-Qaeda deputy there.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously the \u201crehabilitation\u201d program didn\u2019t \u201ctake\u201d.\u00a0 Surprise, surprise.<\/p>\n<p>al-Shihri had previously erroneously been reported dead as the result of a September 2012 missile attack (later DNA testing on the body recovered proved it was not al-Shihri).\u00a0 al-Shihri afterwards taunted Yemeni authorities over that misidentification.\u00a0 In an audio message posted by jihadi websites on October 22, 2012, he castigated Yemeni authorities for falsely announcing the \u201crumor about my death &#8230; as though the killing of the mujahideen (holy warriors) by America is a victory to Islam and Muslims.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The strike that led to his death happened six days later.\u00a0\u00a0 Maybe he should have kept his mouth shut.<\/p>\n<p>May Shaytan take him, and may all his 72 virgins <a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_dNDcHtiKdf4\/TPl7MufkrNI\/AAAAAAAAIjc\/tMNov2cql9o\/s1600\/Helen-Thomas-_-Islamist-Apologist.jpg\">look thusly<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chalk up another small victory in the GWOT.\u00a0 The #2 guy for al-Qaeda in Yemen, Saeed &hellip; <a title=\"A Small Victory\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=33804\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Small Victory<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}