{"id":7632,"date":"2010-01-07T13:11:22","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T21:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=7632"},"modified":"2010-01-07T13:13:13","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T21:13:13","slug":"yemen-us-intervention-strengthens-al-qaeda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7632","title":{"rendered":"Yemen: U.S. Intervention Strengthens Al-Qaeda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While that may be biggest &#8220;no, duh&#8221; headline ever for readers of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.BradBlog.com\">The BRAD BLOG<\/a>, happily it&#8217;s actually <i>news<\/i> today <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/01\/07\/AR2010010702184.html?hpid=topnews\">at <i>Washington Post<\/i><\/a> [<i>emphasis added<\/i>]:<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">SANAA, Yemen &#8212; In its strongest language yet, Yemen&#8217;s government declared Thursday that there are limits to its military cooperation with the United States, warning that <b>any direct U.S. action in this impoverished Middle East nation could bolster the popularity of Islamic militants<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If there is direct intervention by the United States, <b>it will strengthen al-Qaeda<\/b>,&#8221; warned Rashad al-Alimi, Yemen&#8217;s deputy prime minister for security and defense. <\/div>\n<p>Note to rest of media: Begin ignoring the above immediately. It never happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While that may be biggest &#8220;no, duh&#8221; headline ever for readers of The BRAD BLOG, happily it&#8217;s actually news today at Washington Post [emphasis added]: SANAA, Yemen &#8212; In its strongest language yet, Yemen&#8217;s government declared Thursday that there are limits to its military cooperation with the United States, warning that any direct U.S. action [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,444],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-7632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war-on-terror","category-yemen"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7632"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=7632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}