{"id":2385,"date":"2010-10-30T04:27:34","date_gmt":"2010-10-30T04:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2010-10-30T04:29:05","modified_gmt":"2010-10-30T04:29:05","slug":"are_the_aq_euro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2385","title":{"rendered":"Are The AQ &#8220;Euro-Plots&#8221; About Hostage-Taking?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via the <a href=\"http:\/\/allthingscounterterrorism.com\/2010\/10\/27\/hostage-takings-for-prisoner-release-in-europe\/\" target=\"browser\">indispensable Leah Farrall<\/a>, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/europe\/0,1518,725618,00.html\" target=\"browser\">Der Speigel<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;I have information that I consider to be reliable, according to which al-Qaida in Waziristan is training how to carry out multiple parallel hostage takings in order to enforce the release of a prisoner,&#8221; Benotman says.<\/p>\n<p>Benotman believes that the alleged plans for attacks on European targets that authorities have been warning about in recent weeks are real. He says the plan consists of storming buildings in Germany, France and Britain at the same time and holding the people inside hostage with the aim of forcing the release of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind behind 9\/11 who is now sitting in jail in the United States awaiting trial for the attacks.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wouldn&#8217;t that be a NATO meeting to listen in on?&#8230;I&#8217;m not sure that the alliance could service more than a few hours of televised hostage-killing.<br \/>\n&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s the busted AQ plot about?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}