{"id":23633,"date":"2010-09-05T10:20:41","date_gmt":"2010-09-05T17:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/?p=23633"},"modified":"2010-09-09T00:29:54","modified_gmt":"2010-09-09T07:29:54","slug":"why-osama-bin-laden-still-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/why-osama-bin-laden-still-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Osama Bin Laden Still Matters After Nine Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Does Osama bin Laden still matter?\u00a0 Maybe not as the direct threat he once was, but his influence continues to draw many to jihad. Newsweek takes a look.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In late January, Osama bin Laden released an audiotape praising the Nigerian who tried to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day 2009. \u201cThe message delivered to you through the plane of the heroic warrior Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was a confirmation of the previous messages sent by the heroes of [September] 11th,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>While the tape was proof that Al Qaeda\u2019s leader was still alive, it also raised the question of whether he\u2019s now only an irrelevant militant seeking to associate himself with even failed attacks originated by groups he doesn\u2019t control.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/2010\/09\/04\/why-osama-bin-laden-still-matters.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=56a1d3b0-65f0-49d7-8bdd-962549feeb85\" alt=\"\" \/><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>Does Osama bin Laden still matter?\u00a0 Maybe not as the direct threat he once was, but his influence continues to draw many to jihad. Newsweek takes a look. In late January, Osama bin Laden released an audiotape praising the Nigerian who tried to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day 2009. \u201cThe message delivered [&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":[1],"tags":[21,760,546,30,1079,4896,1015,1228],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23633"}],"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=23633"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23666,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23633\/revisions\/23666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}