{"id":29285,"date":"2012-06-29T20:09:50","date_gmt":"2012-06-30T03:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/?p=29285"},"modified":"2012-06-29T20:38:44","modified_gmt":"2012-06-30T03:38:44","slug":"next-gen-terror-watchers-go-deep-into-al-qaida-tweet-a-lot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/next-gen-terror-watchers-go-deep-into-al-qaida-tweet-a-lot\/","title":{"rendered":"Next-Gen Terror Watchers Go Deep Into Al-Qaida, Tweet a Lot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most counterterrorism scholars will never meet Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of al-Qaida, let alone pray with him. As a teenage extremist, Tawfik Hamid did.Back when Hamid was a youth in Cairo, studying at a medical school, his religious fervor compelled him to associate with terrorists. \u201cOne of the mosques at the school was reserved for Gemaa Islamiyah,\u201d Hamid casually explains over a burger in Arlington, Virginia. Before Hamid decided that he\u2019d prefer not to assassinate the police officer that Gemaa Islamiyah wanted him to kill, he shared mosque time on a few more occasions with the man who would succeed Osama bin Laden. Now senior U.S. generals refer to him as a \u201ctreasure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/dangerroom\/2012\/06\/next-gen-counterterrorism\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+WiredDangerRoom+%28Blog+-+Danger+Room%29\">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\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=6ca701c8-1f61-4d2a-9d59-eb32430e4357\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most counterterrorism scholars will never meet Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of al-Qaida, let alone pray with him. As a teenage extremist, Tawfik Hamid did.Back when Hamid was a youth in Cairo, studying at a medical school, his religious fervor compelled him to associate with terrorists. \u201cOne of the mosques at the school was reserved for [&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":[21,1020,1325,546,30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29285"}],"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=29285"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29288,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29285\/revisions\/29288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}