{"id":56398,"date":"2016-11-20T02:00:16","date_gmt":"2016-11-20T02:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/wsj_terror_grows_in_southern_philippines_from_militants_linked_to_isis\/"},"modified":"2016-11-20T02:00:16","modified_gmt":"2016-11-20T02:00:16","slug":"wsj_terror_grows_in_southern_philippines_from_militants_linked_to_isis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56398","title":{"rendered":"(WSJ) Terror Grows in Southern Philippines From Militants Linked to ISIS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abu Sayyaf, once written off as one of the global jihadist movement\u2019s also-rans, is gaining strength in the southern Philippines by chasing down high-value victims at sea and ransoming them off for millions of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>After a relative lull for most of a decade, kidnappings have surged to more than 20 annually since 2014, when the group\u2019s main leader Isnilon Hapilon swore allegiance to Islamic State.<\/p>\n<p>That rebranding\u201d\u201dand the accompanying brutality, including beheadings\u201d\u201dhas generated international headlines and raised fears that the island-dotted region could re-emerge as a hub for Islamist terrorists, as it was for al Qaeda in the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/terror-grows-in-southern-philippines-from-militants-linked-to-islamic-state-1479465005\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abu Sayyaf, once written off as one of the global jihadist movement\u2019s also-rans, is gaining strength in the southern Philippines by chasing down high-value victims at sea and ransoming them off for millions of dollars. After a relative lull for<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56398\">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":[39,40,50,42,201,168,144,426,155,353,151,108,148,34,138,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-asia","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-foreign-relations","category-islam","category-other-faiths","category-philippines","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-terrorism","category-theology","category-travel","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56398","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=56398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}