{"id":19777,"date":"2010-05-21T18:13:02","date_gmt":"2010-05-22T01:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/?p=19777"},"modified":"2010-05-21T18:13:03","modified_gmt":"2010-05-22T01:13:03","slug":"key-al-qaeda-figure-accidentally-blows-himself-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/key-al-qaeda-figure-accidentally-blows-himself-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Al Qaeda Figure Accidentally Blows Himself Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12145\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-12145\" href=\"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/2009\/09\/24\/man-indicted-allegedly-conspired-to-murder-of-u-s-citizens-abroad\/targeting_terror_2-3\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12145\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12145\" title=\"targeting_terror_2\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/targeting_terror_22-150x100.jpg\" alt=\"Targeting Terrorism\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/targeting_terror_22-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/targeting_terror_22-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/targeting_terror_22.jpg 307w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12145\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Targeting Terrorism<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A man whom the U.S. described as a key figure in Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula accidentally blew himself up, U.S. military officials told Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>The officials say Nayif Al-Qahtani was &#8220;messing with a bomb&#8221; when it went off. U.S. officials had been watching him, but Fox News&amp;apos; sources insist the U.S. had nothing to do with his death.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Qahtani was &#8220;a vibrant guy linked to ongoing operations planning, and his death will have an impact,&#8221; one official told Fox News.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2010\/05\/21\/key-al-qaeda-figure-accidentally-blows-officials-say\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/790c22fd-272b-42ed-a450-5588cb5be717\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?x-id=790c22fd-272b-42ed-a450-5588cb5be717\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" \/><\/a><span class=\"zem-script more-related pretty-attribution\"><script src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man whom the U.S. described as a key figure in Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula accidentally blew himself up, U.S. military officials told Fox News. The officials say Nayif Al-Qahtani was &#8220;messing with a bomb&#8221; when it went off. U.S. officials had been watching him, but Fox News&amp;apos; sources insist the U.S. had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[14],"tags":[21,2437,1911,5036,6393,30,1079,1228],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19777"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19777"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19780,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19777\/revisions\/19780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}