{"id":13690,"date":"2019-10-30T11:42:30","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T15:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=13690"},"modified":"2019-10-30T11:42:32","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T15:42:32","slug":"what-baghdadis-death-tells-us-about-the-real-terror-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/what-baghdadis-death-tells-us-about-the-real-terror-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"What Baghdadi\u2019s Death Tells Us About the Real Terror Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot_2019-10-30-What-Baghdadi\u2019s-Death-Tells-Us-About-the-Real-Terror-Threat-Frontpagemag-1024x575.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13691\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot_2019-10-30-What-Baghdadi\u2019s-Death-Tells-Us-About-the-Real-Terror-Threat-Frontpagemag-1024x575.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot_2019-10-30-What-Baghdadi\u2019s-Death-Tells-Us-About-the-Real-Terror-Threat-Frontpagemag-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot_2019-10-30-What-Baghdadi\u2019s-Death-Tells-Us-About-the-Real-Terror-Threat-Frontpagemag-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot_2019-10-30-What-Baghdadi\u2019s-Death-Tells-Us-About-the-Real-Terror-Threat-Frontpagemag.png 1098w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Always look for the country behind the curtain. <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>FrontPage Mag<\/strong>, by Daniel Greenfield &#8212; October 30, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>What\u2019s the best place to look for the terrorist leader of a defeated  Islamic terrorist group? When his men are on the run, look for his  hideout in or near the country that sponsors him.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>We didn\u2019t find Osama bin Laden hiding in a cave in Afghanistan, but  in a compound in a Pakistani military city. And Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi,  the former Caliph of ISIS, wasn\u2019t hanging out in his home turf, but in  an area controlled by Turkey and its allied Islamist militias right off  the Turkish border.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Osama bin Laden\u2019s death confirmed the reports of his ties to  Pakistan, and Baghdadi\u2019s death confirmed the rumors of the links between  ISIS and Turkey. Those links may not as run as deep as those between  Pakistan, the Taliban, and Al Qaeda, but when Baghdadi wanted someplace  to hide out with his family, he didn\u2019t huddle with his forces, but  picked a location under the shadow of the Turkish military.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>As Robert Spencer, an expert on the theology and geopolitics of Islamic terrorism, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/homeland-security\/the-isis-caliph-is-dead-but-who-was-protecting-him\/\"><em>noted<\/em><\/a><em>,  \u201cIt strains credulity that Turkey, with its interests in northern  Syria, did not know he was there. Al-Baghdadi was killed in Barisha in  the Idlib province, a town of no more than 2,500 people right on the  Turkish border.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>View the complete article including image, links and comments at:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2019\/10\/what-baghdadis-death-tells-us-about-real-terror-daniel-greenfield\/\">https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2019\/10\/what-baghdadis-death-tells-us-about-real-terror-daniel-greenfield\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Always look for the country behind the curtain. FrontPage Mag, by Daniel Greenfield &#8212; October 30, 2019 Excerpt: What\u2019s the best place to look for the terrorist leader of a defeated Islamic terrorist group? When his men are on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/what-baghdadis-death-tells-us-about-the-real-terror-threat\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13692,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13690\/revisions\/13692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}