{"id":30777,"date":"2013-01-13T18:04:37","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T01:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/?p=30777"},"modified":"2013-01-13T18:04:37","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T01:04:37","slug":"obama-urged-to-stand-ground-against-renewed-call-for-blind-sheikh-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/obama-urged-to-stand-ground-against-renewed-call-for-blind-sheikh-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama urged to stand ground against renewed call for Blind Sheikh release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The head of the House Homeland Security Committee is urging President Obama not to cave in to renewed pleas by Egypt\u2019s president to release the \u201cBlind Sheikh\u201d \u2013 a convicted terrorist who \u201chas American blood on his hands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, asked Obama to stand firm on the issue and warned that releasing Omar Abdel Rahman would be \u201cseen as a major sign of weakness throughout the Muslim extremist world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2013\/01\/13\/egypt-president-renews-call-to-free-blind-sheikh\/\">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=53d49cbc-e0a2-4708-a74e-e426785550d9\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The head of the House Homeland Security Committee is urging President Obama not to cave in to renewed pleas by Egypt\u2019s president to release the \u201cBlind Sheikh\u201d \u2013 a convicted terrorist who \u201chas American blood on his hands.\u201d Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, asked Obama to stand firm on the issue and warned that releasing Omar [&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":[672,6756,9248],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30777"}],"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=30777"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30780,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30777\/revisions\/30780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}