{"id":39420,"date":"2013-08-06T16:29:25","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T16:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/wash-_post_al-qaeda_leader_zawahiri_is_said_to_have_ordered_terrorist_attac\/"},"modified":"2013-08-06T16:29:25","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T16:29:25","slug":"wash-_post_al-qaeda_leader_zawahiri_is_said_to_have_ordered_terrorist_attac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39420","title":{"rendered":"(Wash. Post) Al-Qaeda leader Zawahiri is said to have ordered terrorist attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri ordered the head of the terrorist group\u2019s Yemen affiliate to carry out an attack, according to intercepted communications that have led to the closure of U.S. embassies and a global travel alert, said a person briefed on the case.<\/p>\n<p>In one communication, Zawahiri, who succeeded Osama bin Laden, gave \u201cclear orders\u201d\u009d to Nasir al-Wuhayshi, the founder of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, to undertake an attack, the source said. McClatchy newspapers first reported the exchange on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/al-qaeda-leader-zawahiri-is-said-to-have-ordered-terrorist-attack\/2013\/08\/05\/9eb4799e-fe1b-11e2-bd97-676ec24f1f3f_story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri ordered the head of the terrorist group\u2019s Yemen affiliate to carry out an attack, according to intercepted communications that have led to the closure of U.S. embassies and a global travel alert, said a person briefed<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39420\">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-39420","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\/39420","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=39420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}