{"id":30105,"date":"2012-10-07T08:13:18","date_gmt":"2012-10-07T15:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/?p=30105"},"modified":"2012-10-26T15:25:43","modified_gmt":"2012-10-26T22:25:43","slug":"al-qaeda-affiliates-getting-stronger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/al-qaeda-affiliates-getting-stronger\/","title":{"rendered":"Al-Qaeda Affiliates Getting Stronger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Terrorist groups in Mali and Yemen that are affiliated with al-Qaeda are \u201cgaining strength,\u201d in large part by taking hostages for ransom, a senior U.S. Treasury official said today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe U.S. government estimates that terrorist organizations have collected approximately $120 million in ransom payments over the past eight years,\u201d said David Cohen, the Treasury Department\u2019s undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, in a speech to the Royal Institute of International Affairs at Chatham House in London.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2012-10-05\/al-qaeda-affiliates-getting-stronger-says-u-s-official.html\">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=73f06087-4741-42ea-a5e1-a08666da9366\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Terrorist groups in Mali and Yemen that are affiliated with al-Qaeda are \u201cgaining strength,\u201d in large part by taking hostages for ransom, a senior U.S. Treasury official said today. \u201cThe U.S. government estimates that terrorist organizations have collected approximately $120 million in ransom payments over the past eight years,\u201d said David Cohen, the Treasury [&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":[21,30,274],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30105"}],"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=30105"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30279,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30105\/revisions\/30279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}