{"id":6063,"date":"2008-05-09T03:40:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-09T03:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/al_qaeda_iraq_leader_arrested\/"},"modified":"2008-05-09T03:40:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-09T03:40:00","slug":"al_qaeda_iraq_leader_arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=6063","title":{"rendered":"Al-Qaeda Iraq leader &#39;arrested&#39;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, has been arrested, according to media reports quoting the country&#8217;s defence ministry.<\/p>\n<p>Masri, also known as Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, was detained in the northern city of Mosul, reports said.<\/p>\n<p>The US military in Iraq said it was currently looking into the reports.<\/p>\n<p>The Egyptian-born militant took over the leadership of the group from Abu Musab al-Zarqawi shortly after he was killed in a US air strike in June 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Qaeda in Iraq has been blamed for or has claimed responsibility for some of the bloodiest insurgent attacks in Iraq since the US-led invasion in 2003.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/middle_east\/7391423.stm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, has been arrested, according to media reports quoting the country&#8217;s defence ministry. Masri, also known as Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, was detained in the northern city of Mosul, reports said. The US<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=6063\">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":[40,141,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-iraq-war","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6063","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=6063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}