{"id":21961,"date":"2017-05-28T16:10:25","date_gmt":"2017-05-28T16:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=21961"},"modified":"2017-05-28T16:10:25","modified_gmt":"2017-05-28T16:10:25","slug":"another-prime-al-qaeda-target-emerges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=21961","title":{"rendered":"Another prime al-Qaeda target emerges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/AP_01110503115.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-21966\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/AP_01110503115-300x219.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/AP_01110503115-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/AP_01110503115-768x562.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/AP_01110503115-1024x749.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/AP_01110503115.jpg 1484w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the world of most wanted public enemies, young man.<\/p>\n<p>I refer to the son of Osama bin Laden, a fellow named Hamza bin Laden, a 28-year-old terrorist with visions of walking along his late father&#8217;s blood-soaked trail.<\/p>\n<p>The young bin Laden has declared that he wants to rekindle al-Qaeda as a terrorist force, a force for evil.<\/p>\n<p>OK, then. Here&#8217;s a thought for Donald Trump&#8217;s national security team.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve got a professed killer on the loose with the stated aim of juicing up a bloodthirsty terrorist organization. That means he has declared himself to be an enemy of the United States of America.<br \/>\nWhat does this mean? It means the young man is fair game. He&#8217;s a target for our special ops forces, our CIA spooks and those who might be close to him who could help guide our personnel toward a hit in the manner of the mission that took out Osama bin Laden in May 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The president has a first-rate national security adviser, H.R. McMaster, on the job. His homeland security secretary, John Kelly, also is a competent former Marine general. They have the best military apparatus ever assembled at their disposal; indeed, former Marine Gen. James &#8220;Mad Dog&#8221; Mattis has emerged as a serious-minded secretary of defense. They also have the best intelligence-gatherers available to them as well &#8212; no matter what the president might think of them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/bin-ladens-son-steps-into-fathers-shoes-as-al-qaeda-attempts-a-comeback\/2017\/05\/27\/0c89ffc0-4198-11e7-9869-bac8b446820a_story.html?utm_term=.8be11094ff28\">Let&#8217;s get busy and find this guy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think they ought to commence &#8212; if they haven&#8217;t already &#8212; a &#8220;search and destroy&#8221; mission to rid the world of Osama bin Laden&#8217;s son.<\/p>\n<p>Good hunting. We&#8217;ll await your report.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the world of most wanted public enemies, young man. I refer to the son of Osama bin Laden, a fellow named Hamza bin Laden, a 28-year-old terrorist with visions of walking along his late father&#8217;s blood-soaked trail. The young bin Laden has declared that he wants to rekindle al-Qaeda as a terrorist force, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=21961\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Another prime al-Qaeda target emerges<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[222,1424,6960,2158,3212,3458],"class_list":["post-21961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","category-uncategorized","tag-al-qaeda","tag-donald-trump","tag-h-r-mcmaster","tag-homeland-security","tag-national-security","tag-osama-bin-laden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21961"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21967,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21961\/revisions\/21967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}