{"id":377,"date":"2003-12-24T21:17:57","date_gmt":"2003-12-25T02:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2003\/12\/seasons_greetings_from_al_qaed\/"},"modified":"2003-12-24T21:17:57","modified_gmt":"2003-12-25T02:17:57","slug":"seasons_greetings_from_al_qaed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/12\/seasons_greetings_from_al_qaed\/","title":{"rendered":"Season&#8217;s Greetings, from Al Qaeda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They probably don&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/news\/worldnews\/14312.htm\">get into the holiday spirit much<\/a>, anyway:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Alarming messages published on known al Qaeda Web sites are claiming the terror network is about to launch its biggest strikes ever &#8211; and are warning Muslims to leave the cities of New York, Washington and Los Angeles.<br \/>\n. . .<br \/>\n[Counterterrorism expert Rita] Katz said a posting two weeks ago quoted an al Qaeda spokesman identified as Abu Issam al-Yamani as saying, &#8220;The next al Qaeda attacks will be most violent and will target the U.S.&#8221; and urged Muslims &#8220;to leave the country if they don&#8217;t wish to die as a result of a Jihadist operation.&#8221;<br \/>\nA second message was posted on the same Web site last Thursday, from a group calling itself the Islamic Bayan Movement.<br \/>\n&#8220;Our Muslim brothers in America, this is our final warning. We ask you, as fast as you can, to leave the following cities immediately: Washington D.C., New York City, Los Angeles,&#8221; the message said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Doesn&#8217;t sound good.  On the other hand, I could post a bunch of scary stuff on a web site too, and it wouldn&#8217;t mean anyone was actually in danger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/12\/seasons_greetings_from_al_qaed\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Season&#8217;s Greetings, from Al Qaeda\"><p>They probably don&#8217;t get into the holiday spirit much, anyway: Alarming messages published on known al Qaeda Web sites are claiming the terror network is about to launch its biggest strikes ever &#8211; and are warning Muslims to leave the cities of New York, Washington and Los Angeles. . . . [Counterterrorism expert Rita] Katz [&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-377","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\/377","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=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}