{"id":50300,"date":"2015-06-15T02:00:22","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T02:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bloomberg_isis_toxic_recipe_gives_strength_year_after_caliphate\/"},"modified":"2015-06-15T02:00:22","modified_gmt":"2015-06-15T02:00:22","slug":"bloomberg_isis_toxic_recipe_gives_strength_year_after_caliphate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50300","title":{"rendered":"(Bloomberg) ISIS&#39; &#39;toxic recipe&#39; gives strength year after caliphate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Islamic State seized Iraq&#8217;s largest northern city of Mosul almost a year ago, tribal leader Hekmat Suleiman was sure the extremist militants wouldn&#8217;t expand further into his hometown.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We bet Islamic State won&#8217;t have what it takes to last,&#8221; Suleiman said in October during a visit to the Iraqi Kurdish city of Erbil, smoke rising from his shisha water pipe. &#8220;We&#8217;ve reached the beginning of the end of extremism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He was wrong. His hometown of Ramadi fell last month, three days before Islamic State captured Palmyra, a 2,000-year-old UNESCO world heritage city on the Syrian side of its territory.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/middle-east\/islamic-state-s-toxic-recipe-gives-strength-year-after-caliphate-1.350295\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Islamic State seized Iraq&#8217;s largest northern city of Mosul almost a year ago, tribal leader Hekmat Suleiman was sure the extremist militants wouldn&#8217;t expand further into his hometown. &#8220;We bet Islamic State won&#8217;t have what it takes to last,&#8221;<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50300\">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":[39,40,50,42,560,168,564,557,426,558,563,203,155,108,556,148,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-egypt","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-iran","category-iraq","category-islam","category-jordan","category-lebanon","category-middle-east","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-syria","category-terrorism","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50300","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=50300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}