{"id":50325,"date":"2015-06-16T15:15:58","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T15:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/nbc_al_qaeda_confirms_death_of_nasir_al-wuhayshi_aqap_leader_and_2nd_in_com\/"},"modified":"2015-06-16T15:15:58","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T15:15:58","slug":"nbc_al_qaeda_confirms_death_of_nasir_al-wuhayshi_aqap_leader_and_2nd_in_com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50325","title":{"rendered":"(NBC) Al Qaeda Confirms Death of Nasir al-Wuhayshi, AQAP Leader and 2nd in Command"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Al Qaeda confirmed Tuesday that it&#8217;s No. 2 official \u201d\u201d a former aide to Osama Bin Laden who rose to lead the terror group&#8217;s powerful Yemen affiliate \u201d\u201d was killed in a U.S. airstrike.<\/p>\n<p>Rumors about Nasir al-Wuhayshi&#8217;s death first circulated on social media and in the Yemeni press.<\/p>\n<p>A video released by al Qaeda on Tuesday said Wuhayshi had been killed in a U.S. airstrike along with two other militants and that a successor, Qassim al Rimi, had been appointed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/al-qaeda-confirms-death-nasir-al-wuhayshi-aqap-leader-2nd-n376131\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al Qaeda confirmed Tuesday that it&#8217;s No. 2 official \u201d\u201d a former aide to Osama Bin Laden who rose to lead the terror group&#8217;s powerful Yemen affiliate \u201d\u201d was killed in a U.S. airstrike. Rumors about Nasir al-Wuhayshi&#8217;s death first<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50325\">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":[40,50,42,201,143,168,426,155,148,34,486],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-asia","category-defense-national-security-military","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-islam","category-other-faiths","category-terrorism","category-theology","category-yemen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50325","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=50325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}