{"id":39646,"date":"2014-02-05T12:22:52","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T17:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39646"},"modified":"2014-02-05T12:22:52","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T17:22:52","slug":"obama-admnistration-sees-al-qaeda-in-iraq-finally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39646","title":{"rendered":"Obama Admnistration sees al Qaeda in Iraq&#8230;finally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, it&#8217;s true, the Obama Administration can finally see clearly that al Qaeda has a hand in the violence in Iraq, reports the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2014\/feb\/5\/us-sees-global-terror-network-aiding-iraq-attacks\/\">Washington Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAll of these suicide bombers, we believe, are foreign fighters recruited through extreme propaganda on the promise of paradise for killing other Muslims,\u201d said [Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Bret McGurk].<\/p>\n<p>The attacks \u201cdemonstrate a sophisticated global network that is able to recruit, train and deploy human beings to commit suicide and mass murder,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. McGurk added the bombers are the \u201cmost precious resource\u201d of the Islamic State of Iraq (ISIS) and the Levant, arguably the region\u2019s most vicious al Qaeda-style extremist group, whose aim is \u201cto carve out an Islamic caliphate stretching from Baghdad to Lebanon.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, this is nothing that rest of the world, particularly readers of this blog, haven&#8217;t already noticed. The article goes on to mention that suicide bombings have risen sharply from about 7\/month in 2012 to 35\/month in 2013. So they must have quite a recruitment program, and that&#8217;s not my idea of an organization that has been &#8220;decimated&#8221; as we were told before the 2012 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>In other Obama Administration foreign policy\/terror war news, it seems that they&#8217;ve pretty much suspended the &#8220;drones over Pakistan&#8221; program, according to the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/us-curtails-drone-strikes-in-pakistan-as-officials-there-seek-peace-talks-with-taliban\/2014\/02\/04\/1d63f52a-8dd8-11e3-833c-33098f9e5267_story.html?hpid=z2\"> Washington Post<\/a>, to give Pakistan&#8217;s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif an opportunity to have &#8220;peace talks&#8221; with the Taliban there. Peace talks mean different things to different people, though.<\/p>\n<p>For example, <a href=\"http:\/\/abna.ir\/data.asp?lang=3&#038;Id=502533\">in Syria, on Sunday<\/a>, an envoy from the ISIS to peace talks between rebels in Syria blowed up real good taking 16 people with him and sending another 20 to the hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, it&#8217;s true, the Obama Administration can finally see clearly that al Qaeda has a hand &hellip; <a title=\"Obama Admnistration sees al Qaeda in Iraq&#8230;finally\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39646\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Obama Admnistration sees al Qaeda in Iraq&#8230;finally<\/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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39646","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\/39646","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=39646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}