{"id":28104,"date":"2011-12-15T11:07:41","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T18:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/?p=28104"},"modified":"2011-12-30T10:25:55","modified_gmt":"2011-12-30T17:25:55","slug":"al-qaeda-rebranding-itself-to-boost-its-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/al-qaeda-rebranding-itself-to-boost-its-image\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Qaeda Rebranding Itself to Boost its Image"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/al_qaeda.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"530\" height=\"334\" \/>File this one under \u201cmarketing efforts you hope will fail\u201d: Fox News reports that Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has been unable to recruit enough foreign fighters of late<!--more-->, and is laying part of the blame on negative associations with the Al Qaeda brand.<\/p>\n<p>According to an unnamed Arab diplomat, \u201cafter (Usama) bin Laden\u2019s death and the Arab Spring, the name (al Qaeda) seems to have negative connotations and baggage.\u201d Since then, AQAP has increasingly been using the name Ansar al Sharia (Army of Islamic Law).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/marcbabej\/2011\/12\/15\/al-qaeda-rebranding-itself-to-boost-its-image\/\">Read More<\/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=5026f8ae-f27d-465d-8910-21e5e038518c\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File this one under \u201cmarketing efforts you hope will fail\u201d: Fox News reports that Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has been unable to recruit enough foreign fighters of late<\/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":[14],"tags":[4963,1018,5227,546,274],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28104"}],"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=28104"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28246,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28104\/revisions\/28246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}