{"id":28058,"date":"2011-09-05T02:01:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-05T02:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/libya_rebels_poised_to_attack_gadhafi_stronghold\/"},"modified":"2011-09-05T02:01:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-05T02:01:00","slug":"libya_rebels_poised_to_attack_gadhafi_stronghold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28058","title":{"rendered":"(WSJ) Libya Rebels Poised to Attack Gadhafi Stronghold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of Libyan rebel fighters have encircled the pro-Gadhafi stronghold of Bani Walid waiting for orders to attack as negotiations to resolve the standoff peacefully appeared to founder on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Bani Walid, a city of 100,000 residents 90 miles southwest of Tripoli, stands as a first test of rebels&#8217; ability to assert control over a large swath of central Libya still controlled by Col. Moamar Gadhafi&#8217;s loyalists and dominated by the three tribes that formed the backbone of his regime&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424053111904537404576549903485970420.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of Libyan rebel fighters have encircled the pro-Gadhafi stronghold of Bani Walid waiting for orders to attack as negotiations to resolve the standoff peacefully appeared to founder on Sunday. Bani Walid, a city of 100,000 residents 90 miles southwest<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28058\">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":[40,50,202,143,144,531],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-africa","category-defense-national-security-military","category-foreign-relations","category-libya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28058","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=28058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}