{"id":73376,"date":"2017-07-15T09:06:38","date_gmt":"2017-07-15T13:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=73376"},"modified":"2017-07-15T09:06:38","modified_gmt":"2017-07-15T13:06:38","slug":"pentagon-abu-sayed-leader-of-isis-khorasan-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=73376","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon: Abu Sayed, leader of ISIS-Khorasan, dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/07\/14\/politics\/us-kills-isis-leader-afghanistan\/\">CNN<\/a>, the Pentagon has announced that Abu Sayed, the leader of ISIS-Khorasan, the Islamic State in Afghanistan was killed in a drone attack on their headquarters on July 11th;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>US Navy Captain Bill Salvin, spokesman for US Forces Afghanistan provided additional detail of how Abu Sayed was killed. Salvin said he was killed in an airstrike by a US drone. The initial Pentagon statement described Sayed being killed in a &#8220;raid&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>Secretary of Defense James Mattis told reporters on Friday that the death of  a leader like Sayed &#8220;sets them back for a day a week, a month, it&#8217;s about who it is and what kind of people are below them. It is obviously a victory on our side in terms of setting them back, it&#8217;s the right direction.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess his retirement package rolls over to the next guy. Killing the leaders hasn&#8217;t had a lasting effect on these terrorist groups, but every little bit helps, I suppose. The only good terrorist is a dead terrorist. If we can&#8217;t dissuade them from their corrupt ideology, the only option is to kill them all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to CNN, the Pentagon has announced that Abu Sayed, the leader of ISIS-Khorasan, the Islamic &hellip; <a title=\"Pentagon: Abu Sayed, leader of ISIS-Khorasan, dead\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=73376\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pentagon: Abu Sayed, leader of ISIS-Khorasan, dead<\/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-73376","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\/73376","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=73376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}