{"id":30072,"date":"2012-10-02T21:58:34","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T04:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/?p=30072"},"modified":"2012-10-02T21:58:34","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T04:58:34","slug":"rise-of-kidnapping-by-terror-groups-is-urgent-threat-says-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/rise-of-kidnapping-by-terror-groups-is-urgent-threat-says-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Rise of kidnapping by terror groups is urgent threat, says US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islamist militants are increasingly funding themselves through kidnapping, with al-Qaida&#8217;s north African wing likely to have brought in tens of millions of dollars in ransoms in the past few years, a US treasury official has said.<\/p>\n<p>The US estimated that militant groups including al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (Aqim) received $120m (\u00a375m) in ransoms over the past decade, said David Cohen, undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2012\/oct\/02\/kidnapping-terror-groups-urgent-threat\">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=c40400bc-c36a-403f-bb3d-e58f26b58af2\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamist militants are increasingly funding themselves through kidnapping, with al-Qaida&#8217;s north African wing likely to have brought in tens of millions of dollars in ransoms in the past few years, a US treasury official has said. The US estimated that militant groups including al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (Aqim) received $120m (\u00a375m) in ransoms over [&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":[21,760,4968,7883],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30072"}],"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=30072"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30075,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30072\/revisions\/30075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}