{"id":39269,"date":"2014-01-13T08:00:16","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T13:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39269"},"modified":"2014-01-13T08:25:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T13:25:00","slug":"nbc-global-jihadis-or-al-qaeda-wannabes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39269","title":{"rendered":"NBC: Global jihadis or al Qaeda wannabes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pinto Nag sends us a link to NBC News which writes about &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/worldnews.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2014\/01\/11\/22243203-global-jihadis-or-al-qaeda-wannabes-who-are-the-islamic-state-of-iraq-and-the-levant?lite&#038;ocid=msnhp&#038;pos=3\">Global jihadis or al Qaeda wannabes: Who are the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant?<\/a>&#8221; The most newsworthy part of the article is that NBC recognizes the fact that al Qaeda was in Iraq before the evil George W. Bush invaded the country;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After he was released from prison in his homeland, Zarqawi commanded fighters in Afghanistan, where he met Osama bin Laden, the founder of al Qaeda and mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.<\/p>\n<p>He reportedly moved to Iraq in 2001, and in anticipation of the U.S. invasion in 2003, built a network of contacts, recruited fighters and became the default &#8220;emir&#8221; of Islamist terrorists in Iraq, a report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies said. His group then targeted international forces, government infrastructure and personnel, aid workers and reconstruction efforts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See, I&#8217;ve been preached to that there was no al Qaeda in Iraq until we provided them with US soldiers as targets in 2003, I guess, now that that particular meme is part of the popular culture, they go back to admitting the truth that most of us knew anyway. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pinto Nag sends us a link to NBC News which writes about &#8220;Global jihadis or al &hellip; <a title=\"NBC: Global jihadis or al Qaeda wannabes\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39269\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NBC: Global jihadis or al Qaeda wannabes<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiwar-crowd","category-media","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39269","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}