{"id":34713,"date":"2013-03-23T16:10:02","date_gmt":"2013-03-23T20:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=34713"},"modified":"2013-03-23T16:10:02","modified_gmt":"2013-03-23T20:10:02","slug":"in-the-good-news-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34713","title":{"rendered":"In the Good News Department . . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>French authorities have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2013\/03\/23\/france-confirms-death-al-qaeda-chief-abou-zeid\/\">confirmed the death of al-Qaeda-linked North African warlord Abou Zeid<\/a>.\u00a0 He had been previously reported as &#8220;probably killed&#8221; pending the outcome of DNA testing.<\/p>\n<p>DNA testing says forget the &#8220;probably&#8221;.\u00a0 It was him.<\/p>\n<p>Abou Zeid was a key figure in southern branch of al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).\u00a0 He was instrumental in the take-over of northern Mali, and was responsible for the executions of at least two foreign hostages.\u00a0 He was also reportedly a committed and disciplined radical, and was close to the AQIM overall leader, Abdelmalek Droukdel.<\/p>\n<p>Zeid had a long history of terrorist violence.\u00a0 He had been fighting in various radical Islamist movements for over 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s no longer fighting.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s nice to be able to use the past tense in referring to such terrorist bastards.\u00a0 May all of his &#8220;72 virgins&#8221; look like either Helen Thomas or Perez Hilton &#8211; with personality to match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French authorities have confirmed the death of al-Qaeda-linked North African warlord Abou Zeid.\u00a0 He had been &hellip; <a title=\"In the Good News Department . . . .\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34713\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In the Good News Department . . . .<\/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-34713","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\/34713","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=34713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}