{"id":2064,"date":"2006-08-24T13:37:52","date_gmt":"2006-08-24T17:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/in_the_footsteps_of_bin_laden\/"},"modified":"2006-08-24T13:37:52","modified_gmt":"2006-08-24T17:37:52","slug":"in_the_footsteps_of_bin_laden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/08\/in_the_footsteps_of_bin_laden\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;In The Footsteps of bin Laden&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I watched parts of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/tvnewser\/cnn\/did_you_watch_in_the_footsteps_42605.asp\">CNN&#8217;s documentary<\/a> last night.  While it did provide more depth than the &#8220;they want to kill us because of our freedom&#8221; mantra we typically hear, it still seemed superficial.  Here we have reporters who have supposedly been monitoring the guy for nearly 10 years, and they don&#8217;t offer much more than general observations on how he gave up wealth to wonder in the mountains in pursuit of his spiritually-motivated war.  That&#8217;s <em>really<\/em> insightful.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s interesting that in a program supposedly intended to help us get to know the enemy, CNN only plays a handful of very brief clips from bin Laden interviews.  I guess they had to run it through the politically-correct sanitizer before releasing it for public consumption.  Or are we still worried about encoded messages buried in eight-year old interviews?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/08\/in_the_footsteps_of_bin_laden\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to &#8220;In The Footsteps of bin Laden&#8221;\"><p>I watched parts of CNN&#8217;s documentary last night. While it did provide more depth than the &#8220;they want to kill us because of our freedom&#8221; mantra we typically hear, it still seemed superficial. Here we have reporters who have supposedly been monitoring the guy for nearly 10 years, and they don&#8217;t offer much more than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2064","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}