{"id":50609,"date":"2014-06-12T07:00:11","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T11:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=50609"},"modified":"2014-06-11T16:47:29","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T20:47:29","slug":"tikrit-collapses-to-al-qaeda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=50609","title":{"rendered":"Tikrit collapses to al Qaeda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/middle-east\/iraqi-officials-say-militants-seize-city-of-tikrit-1.288298\">The Associated Press<\/a> reports that Saddam Hussein&#8217;s hometown, Tikrit, Iraq fell to al Qaeda forces yesterday, a day after they seized the northern city of Mosul;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Tikrit residents reached by telephone said the militant group had taken over several police stations in the Sunni-dominated city. They spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of their safety.<\/p>\n<p>As night fell, several hundred gunmen were in Tikrit, with clashes still taking place between the insurgents and military units on its outskirts, said Mizhar Fleih, the deputy head of the municipal council of nearby Samarra.<\/p>\n<p>Two Iraqi security officials confirmed that Tikrit, the capital of Salahuddin province, was under the control of the [Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant], and said the provincial governor was missing. Tikrit is 130 kilometers (80 miles) north of Baghdad.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But, hey, al Qaeda has been decimated and the war in Iraq is done. We heard through the last decade that the War Against Terror was only increasing the number of terrorists, that doesn&#8217;t seem to be the truth after all. It looks like cutting and running only encourages terrorists. Who knew that?<\/p>\n<p>Folks have been saying that the clock has been turned back to September 10th, 2011, but I feel more like it&#8217;s April 30th, 1975.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press reports that Saddam Hussein&#8217;s hometown, Tikrit, Iraq fell to al Qaeda forces yesterday, &hellip; <a title=\"Tikrit collapses to al Qaeda\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=50609\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tikrit collapses to al Qaeda<\/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-50609","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\/50609","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=50609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}