{"id":140,"date":"2011-02-26T22:59:16","date_gmt":"2011-02-27T03:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/?p=140"},"modified":"2011-03-31T23:00:33","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T03:00:33","slug":"al-qaeda-the-loser-in-arab-revolutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/2011\/02\/26\/al-qaeda-the-loser-in-arab-revolutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Qaeda the loser in Arab revolutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Peter Bergen, CNN National Security Analyst<\/p>\n<p>(CNN) &#8212; Osama bin Laden must be sitting in his comfortably appointed hideaway somewhere in northwest Pakistan watching the events in the Middle East unfold with a mixture of glee and despair.<\/p>\n<p>Glee, because overthrowing the dictatorships and monarchies of the Middle East has long been his central goal.<\/p>\n<p>Despair, because none of the Arab revolutions has anything to do with him.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2011\/OPINION\/02\/23\/bergen.revolt.binladen\/index.html?iref=allsearch\">Click here for more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Peter Bergen, CNN National Security Analyst (CNN) &#8212; Osama bin Laden must be sitting in his comfortably appointed hideaway somewhere in northwest Pakistan watching the events in the Middle East unfold with a mixture of glee and despair. Glee, because overthrowing the dictatorships and monarchies of the Middle East <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/2011\/02\/26\/al-qaeda-the-loser-in-arab-revolutions\/\" class=\"btn btn-link continue-link\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}