{"id":20978,"date":"2010-07-28T16:35:33","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T16:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ap_france_declares_war_against_al-qaida\/"},"modified":"2010-07-28T16:35:33","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T16:35:33","slug":"ap_france_declares_war_against_al-qaida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=20978","title":{"rendered":"AP: France declares war against al-Qaida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>France has declared war on al-Qaida, and matched its fighting words with a first attack on a base camp of the terror network&#8217;s North African branch, after the terror network killed a French aid worker it took hostage in April.<\/p>\n<p>The declaration and attack marked a shift in strategy for France, usually discrete about its behind-the-scenes battle against terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are at war with al-Qaida,&#8221; Prime Minister Francois Fillon said Tuesday, a day after President Nicolas Sarkozy announced the death of 78-year-old hostage Michel Germaneau.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wtop.com\/?nid=105&#038;sid=2011479\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France has declared war on al-Qaida, and matched its fighting words with a first attack on a base camp of the terror network&#8217;s North African branch, after the terror network killed a French aid worker it took hostage in April.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=20978\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,50,143,200,468,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-defense-national-security-military","category-europe","category-france","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}