{"id":20648,"date":"2010-07-05T23:51:02","date_gmt":"2010-07-06T06:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/?p=20648"},"modified":"2010-07-06T22:26:04","modified_gmt":"2010-07-07T05:26:04","slug":"al-qaeda-weaker-but-never-more-of-a-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/al-qaeda-weaker-but-never-more-of-a-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Al-Qaeda Weaker, But Never More of a Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-12636\" href=\"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/2009\/10\/10\/concern-grows-over-threatened-terror-attack-on-germany\/al_qaeda_2-2\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12636\" title=\"al_qaeda_2\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/al_qaeda_2-150x119.jpg\" alt=\"al Qaeda Threat\" width=\"150\" height=\"119\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/al_qaeda_2-150x119.jpg 150w, https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/al_qaeda_2.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>U.S. officials boast that al-Qaida has never been weaker, its upper ranks decimated because of the stepped-up drone attacks in Pakistan and special operations raids in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, they warn, in seeming contradiction: An even greater number of well-trained terrorists are setting their sights on the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Across the remote tribal lands between Afghanistan and Pakistan where terror groups hide, U.S. officials say they&#8217;ve seen a fusion of al-Qaida and others targeted by U.S. forces, including the Haqqani group and the Pakistani Taliban, who formerly focused only on their local areas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/world\/index.ssf\/2010\/07\/al-qaida_never_weaker_but_neve.html\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=9f19f700-a366-48d7-a6fd-f63c902eb022\" alt=\"Enhanced by 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>U.S. officials boast that al-Qaida has never been weaker, its upper ranks decimated because of the stepped-up drone attacks in Pakistan and special operations raids in Afghanistan. At the same time, they warn, in seeming contradiction: An even greater number of well-trained terrorists are setting their sights on the United States. Across the remote tribal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[700],"tags":[95,21,760,6679,31,61,4357,737,27,29,1015,6678,274],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20648"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20648"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20683,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20648\/revisions\/20683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}