{"id":1422,"date":"2009-05-22T09:59:19","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T08:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1422"},"modified":"2009-05-22T09:59:19","modified_gmt":"2009-05-22T08:59:19","slug":"how-strong-is-al-qaida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1422","title":{"rendered":"How strong is al-Qaida?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;In the final analysis, al-Qaida is more of a security nuisance than a strategic threat. Al-Qaida has shown itself to be its own worst enemy and is in a process of self-decomposition.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> This is the conclusion of a thoughtful and evidence-based <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opendemocracy.net\/article\/al-qaida-today-the-fate-of-a-movement\">piece<\/a> by Fawaz A Gerges, author of &#8220;The Far Enemy: Why Jihad Went Global&#8221;. Obviously we should not be complacent, but equally we should not exaggerate the threat or the support of ordinary Muslims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In the final analysis, al-Qaida is more of a security nuisance than a strategic threat. Al-Qaida has shown itself to be its own worst enemy and is in a process of self-decomposition.&#8221; This is the conclusion of a thoughtful and evidence-based piece by Fawaz A Gerges, author of &#8220;The Far Enemy: Why Jihad Went Global&#8221;. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}