{"id":32895,"date":"2012-06-05T23:02:58","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T23:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/drone_strike_kills_al_qaeda_no-_2\/"},"modified":"2012-06-05T23:02:58","modified_gmt":"2012-06-05T23:02:58","slug":"drone_strike_kills_al_qaeda_no-_2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32895","title":{"rendered":"Drone Strike Kills al Qaeda No. 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A U.S. drone strike killed al Qaeda&#8217;s No. 2 leader, Abu Yahya al-Libi , a U.S. official confirmed Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. al-Libi was in a house in Pakistan&#8217;s northwest tribal region that was destroyed Monday by a drone strike, intelligence officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. al-Libi&#8217;s death is a major blow to the terror network, which has lost a string of top leaders at the hands of the American drone program. The U.S. sees the strikes as a key weapon against al Qaeda and the insurgents, despite Pakistan&#8217;s repeated demands that the strikes stop.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052702303918204577448523054702092.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A U.S. drone strike killed al Qaeda&#8217;s No. 2 leader, Abu Yahya al-Libi , a U.S. official confirmed Tuesday. Mr. al-Libi was in a house in Pakistan&#8217;s northwest tribal region that was destroyed Monday by a drone strike, intelligence officials<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32895\">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":[39,40,50,209,143,95,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-defense-national-security-military","category-science-technology","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32895","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=32895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}