{"id":37211,"date":"2013-02-09T19:39:06","date_gmt":"2013-02-09T19:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/wsj_push_to_expand_u-s-_kill_list\/"},"modified":"2013-02-09T19:39:06","modified_gmt":"2013-02-09T19:39:06","slug":"wsj_push_to_expand_u-s-_kill_list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=37211","title":{"rendered":"(WSJ) Push to Expand U.S. &#39;Kill List&#39;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senior U.S. officials are pressing to mark for the killing or capture of the self-proclaimed mastermind of last month&#8217;s attack on an Algerian natural-gas facility that claimed the lives of 37 foreign hostages, including three Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Adding the Algerian militant Mokhtar Belmokhtar to a U.S. targeted-killing list would represent a significant U.S. expansion into northwestern Africa, extending the reach of the U.S. program of drone strikes and other lethal counterterrorism operations, which have concentrated on Somalia, Yemen and Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887324906004578292371006607066.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior U.S. officials are pressing to mark for the killing or capture of the self-proclaimed mastermind of last month&#8217;s attack on an Algerian natural-gas facility that claimed the lives of 37 foreign hostages, including three Americans. Adding the Algerian militant<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=37211\">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":[40,50,202,529,209,143,144,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-africa","category-algeria","category-americau-s-a","category-defense-national-security-military","category-foreign-relations","category-politics-in-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37211","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=37211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}