{"id":66664,"date":"2016-07-04T08:57:28","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T12:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=66664"},"modified":"2016-07-04T08:57:57","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T12:57:57","slug":"cornered-isis-turns-on-civilians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=66664","title":{"rendered":"Cornered, ISIS turns on civilians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week marks the end of Ramadan, so it seems that ISIS has stepped up its war against the unarmed innocent. Three suicide bombers detonated themselves in the airport in Istanbul after a hail of gunfire. 20 hostages were gunned down in Bangladesh, the other night (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3671369\/American-student-20-people-hacked-death-Bangladesh-ISIS-terrorists-spared-recite-Koran-armored-troops-moved-in.html\">Three were American students<\/a>) after the victims were quizzed on their knowledge of the Koran (even though this isn&#8217;t a war between religions, we&#8217;re told).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/07\/02\/middleeast\/baghdad-car-bombs\/\">CNN<\/a> reports that 125 people were killed in an attack in Baghdad. An explosive-laden truck slammed into a coffee shop. Apparently, this is a war against coffee-drinkers.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>ISIS promised an uptick in terror attacks during Ramadan. The Baghdad assault came just days after massacres at a cafe in Dhaka, Bangladesh, the Ataturk International Airport in Istanbul, Turkey, and security targets in Yemen. There have also been recent suicide attacks in Jordan at a border crossing near Syria, and suicide attacks in a Christian area of northern Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, a gunman shot up a nightclub in Orlando, Florida, killing 49 people before he was killed, and an attacker killed a police commander and his partner in France.<br \/>\nISIS has claimed responsibility for the attacks in Bangladesh and Yemen and there are news reports that ISIS claimed responsibility for the Jordanian attack. Experts believe the group might have conducted the attacks in Turkey and Lebanon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/world\/2016\/07\/03\/terror-attacks-bangladesh-baghdad-istanbul\/86657348\/\">USAToday<\/a> blames ISIS&#8217; loses on the battlefield for the latest round of terrorist attacks;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The massacres demonstrate that the Islamic State has established cells around the world \u2014 and is still capable of heinous attacks despite its recent setbacks on the battlefield.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Islamic State is losing territory in Iraq and Syria, but it is still a formidable opponent and very dangerous,&#8221; Bruce Riedel, a former CIA officer and an analyst with the Brookings Institution, said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The militant group claimed responsibility for the assaults in Baghdad and Dhaka, and is strongly suspected of being responsible for the Istanbul bombing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The war against terror has shifted from the battlefield to the streets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week marks the end of Ramadan, so it seems that ISIS has stepped up its &hellip; <a title=\"Cornered, ISIS turns on civilians\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=66664\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cornered, ISIS turns on civilians<\/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-66664","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\/66664","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=66664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}