{"id":28043,"date":"2011-09-03T21:29:51","date_gmt":"2011-09-03T21:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/a_man_behind_the_hunt_for_al_qaeda\/"},"modified":"2011-09-03T21:29:51","modified_gmt":"2011-09-03T21:29:51","slug":"a_man_behind_the_hunt_for_al_qaeda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28043","title":{"rendered":"A Man Behind the Hunt for Al Qaeda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every day, Michael G. Vickers gets an update on how many in Al Qaeda\u2019s senior leadership the United States has removed from the battlefield, and lately there has been much to report. Al Qaeda\u2019s No. 2 died in a C.I.A. drone strike late last month, another senior commander was taken out in June, and the Navy Seals made history when they dispatched Osama bin Laden in May.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just want to kill those guys,\u201d\u009d Mr. Vickers likes to say in meetings at the Pentagon, with a grin.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Vickers\u2019s preoccupation \u201d\u201d \u201cmy life,\u201d\u009d he says \u201d\u201d is dismantling Al Qaeda. Underneath an owlish exterior, he is an ex-Green Beret and former C.I.A. operative with an exotic past. His title is under secretary of defense for intelligence, and he has risen to become one of the top counterterrorism officials in Washington.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/09\/04\/world\/04vickers.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every day, Michael G. Vickers gets an update on how many in Al Qaeda\u2019s senior leadership the United States has removed from the battlefield, and lately there has been much to report. Al Qaeda\u2019s No. 2 died in a C.I.A.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28043\">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":[40,143,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-defense-national-security-military","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28043","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=28043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}