{"id":69641,"date":"2017-01-02T10:20:02","date_gmt":"2017-01-02T15:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=69641"},"modified":"2017-01-02T10:20:02","modified_gmt":"2017-01-02T15:20:02","slug":"the-new-normal-same-as-the-old-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69641","title":{"rendered":"The new normal, same as the old normal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2017\/01\/02\/american-injured-in-istanbul-nightclub-attack-was-saved-by-his-phone.html\">Fox News<\/a> reports that ISIS has taken credit for the attack on New Year&#8217;s Day in Istanbul that killed more than 30 people injuring more than 70 others. The triggerman was dressed as Santa Claus and has so far escaped capture.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2017\/01\/02\/at-least-36-killed-after-suicide-bomber-targets-crowded-baghdad-market.html\">ISIS also took credit <\/a>for an attack on a Baghdad market today that cost another 36 lives.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>During a press conference with Hollande, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said the bomber pretended to be a man seeking to hire day laborers. Once the workers gathered around, he detonated the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>ISIS claimed the attack in a statement circulated on a militant website often used by the extremists. It was the third ISIS-claimed attack in as many days in and around Baghdad, underscoring the lingering threat posed by the group despite a string of setbacks elsewhere in the country over the past year, including in and around the northern city of Mosul.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While the Islamic State loses in their caliphate in places like Mosul, since they can&#8217;t win in a straight up fight with the West and the coalition in Iraq and Syria, they&#8217;ll once again carry the fight to innocent, undefended people. Since the coalition won&#8217;t kill them on the battlefields, ISIS will have plenty of soldiers to attack the innocents. Martyrdom is more attractive than death on the battlefield to the jihadists anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News reports that ISIS has taken credit for the attack on New Year&#8217;s Day in &hellip; <a title=\"The new normal, same as the old normal\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69641\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The new normal, same as the old normal<\/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-69641","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\/69641","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=69641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}