{"id":36889,"date":"2013-01-22T03:55:40","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T03:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/al-qaeda_branchs_image_soars_after_hostage_drama_in_algeria\/"},"modified":"2013-01-22T03:55:40","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T03:55:40","slug":"al-qaeda_branchs_image_soars_after_hostage_drama_in_algeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36889","title":{"rendered":"(Washington Post) Al-Qaeda branch\u2019s image soars after hostage drama in Algeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A week of violence in Algeria and Mali has transformed al-Qaeda\u2019s North Africa branch into a cause celebre for militant Islamists around the globe, boosting recruitment and fundraising for the jihadists and spurring fears of further terrorist attacks in the region and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>Even after suffering tactical defeats in both countries in recent days, the movement known as al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb is being lionized in Internet chat rooms and in official statements by extremist groups, some of which are urging reprisal campaigns against Western interests&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/al-qaeda-branchs-image-soars-after-hostage-drama-in-algeria\/2013\/01\/20\/2cb3fb74-633b-11e2-b84d-21c7b65985ee_story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A week of violence in Algeria and Mali has transformed al-Qaeda\u2019s North Africa branch into a cause celebre for militant Islamists around the globe, boosting recruitment and fundraising for the jihadists and spurring fears of further terrorist attacks in the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36889\">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":[40,50,202,529,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-africa","category-algeria","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36889","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=36889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}