{"id":120,"date":"2004-07-20T20:57:10","date_gmt":"2004-07-21T01:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=120"},"modified":"2004-08-27T12:00:34","modified_gmt":"2004-08-27T17:00:34","slug":"al-zarqawi-group-warns-japan-to-withdraw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=120","title":{"rendered":"Al-Zarqawi Group Warns Japan to Withdraw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having tasted success from the Philippines&#8217; submissiveness, the terrorists have now <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;cid=540&#038;ncid=736&#038;e=7&#038;u=\/ap\/20040720\/ap_on_re_mi_ea\/al_zarqawi_japan\" target=\"_blank\">set their sights on Japan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> &#8220;To the government of Japan: do what the Philippines has done. By God, nobody will protect you and we are not going to tolerate anybody,&#8221; said an online statement signed by the Khalid bin al-Waleed Brigade, the military wing of the Tawhid and Jihad group.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lines of cars laden with explosives are awaiting you; we will not stop, God willing,&#8221; said the statement, carried by an Islamic forum, known as a clearinghouse for statements by extremist groups.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You didn&#8217;t come to support the people of Iraq but to protect the Americans. Your destiny will be the same of Americans,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>Japan has dispatched about 500 troops to southern Iraq for non-combat duty to rebuild local schools, provide medical supplies and supply clean water.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks, Philippines, for joining Spain in the Coalition of the Wilting.  You&#8217;ve helped to make the world a more dangerous place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having tasted success from the Philippines&#8217; submissiveness, the terrorists have now set their sights on Japan. &#8220;To the government of Japan: do what the Philippines has done. By God, nobody will protect you and we are not going to tolerate anybody,&#8221; said an online statement signed by the Khalid bin al-Waleed Brigade, the military wing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}