{"id":64558,"date":"2016-02-26T11:41:13","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T16:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=64558"},"modified":"2016-02-26T11:41:13","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T16:41:13","slug":"al-qaeda-making-a-come-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=64558","title":{"rendered":"al Qaeda making a come back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone recently told us how the terrorist organization that we&#8217;ve been fighting for over 15 years is on the ropes. It seems that now, the government is saying that they&#8217;re on their way back into the ring, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/al-qaeda-makes-comeback-n526006\">NBC News<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>U.S. officials tell NBC News that al Qaeda \u2014 though its core in Pakistan has been degraded by years of CIA drone strikes \u2014 is now experiencing renewed strength through its affiliates, led by al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) in Yemen and the Nusra Front in Syria. Clapper called the two groups al Qaeda&#8217;s &#8220;most capable&#8221; affiliates in his House testimony Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Al Qaeda has not managed to attack a Western target recently, but it continues to inspire plots.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, I guess that strategy of droning the leadership isn&#8217;t working, but I don&#8217;t see anyone suggesting a new strategy. Wasn&#8217;t Joe Biden in charge of all of that? I guess that was probably one of the first mistakes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone recently told us how the terrorist organization that we&#8217;ve been fighting for over 15 years &hellip; <a title=\"al Qaeda making a come back\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=64558\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">al Qaeda making a come back<\/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-64558","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\/64558","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=64558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}