{"id":48,"date":"2005-10-12T10:33:44","date_gmt":"2005-10-12T17:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?p=48"},"modified":"2005-10-12T10:34:56","modified_gmt":"2005-10-12T17:34:56","slug":"al-qaida%e2%80%99s-long-term-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2005\/10\/12\/al-qaida%e2%80%99s-long-term-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"al-Qaida\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Long-Term Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Next time someone says &#8220;End the War&#8221; or &#8220;Get out of Iraq Now,&#8221; point them to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centcom.mil\">CENTCOM<\/a> where they have posted al-Qaida&#8217;s vision of the future in the Middle East and elsewhere (here, for example).<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centcom.mil\">CENTCOM<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We note seven critical themes from the Zawahiri-Zarqawi letter.  The first four confirm al-Qaida\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s long-term strategy and core beliefs; the latter three reflect new information about how senior al-Qaida leader Zawahiri views developments in   Iraq   \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and elsewhere \u00e2\u20ac\u201c turning against them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can see the English translation and the Arabic versions in the article &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.centcom.mil\/extremistssay.asp\">What Extremists Are Saying<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Also, you can keep posted to <strong>CENTCOM<\/strong> activities by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centcom.mil\/newsletter\/newsletter-signup.asp\">subscribing to the CENTCOM Electronic Newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <strong>1LT Brian Anderson<\/strong>, <strong>CENTCOM<\/strong> Public Affairs Office for the heads-up on this important issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next time someone says &#8220;End the War&#8221; or &#8220;Get out of Iraq Now,&#8221; point them to CENTCOM where they have posted al-Qaida&#8217;s vision of the future in the Middle East and elsewhere (here, for example).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war-on-terror","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}