{"id":1323,"date":"2006-01-17T22:38:23","date_gmt":"2006-01-18T04:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=1323"},"modified":"2006-01-17T22:40:49","modified_gmt":"2006-01-18T04:40:49","slug":"itb-and-obl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=1323","title":{"rendered":"ITB and OBL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chad Evans at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inthebullpen.com\/\">In the Bullpen<\/a> yesterday <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inthebullpen.com\/archives\/2006\/01\/16\/australian-terrorism-expert-bin-laden-is-dead\/\">linked to a story<\/a> about an Aussie terror expert who theorized that Osama bin Laden was &#8220;certainly either severely incapacitated or dead.&#8221;  Today, Chad <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inthebullpen.com\/archives\/2006\/01\/17\/us-counter-terrorism-ambassador-obl-is-alive\/\">has a link<\/a> to a story where the US counter-terror ambassador states bin Laden is alive.  Me, personally, I&#8217;m hoping for dead, and a painful death at that, but assuming alive until confirmation of long dirtnap status.<\/p>\n<p>After his first post, in which Chad pointed out that it had been over a year since any word from Osama had been released, I left a comment expressing my curiousity about previous gaps between Osama communications.  Well, Chad did the leg work &#8212; well, more likely keyboard work &#8212; and put together <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inthebullpen.com\/archives\/2006\/01\/17\/osama-bin-laden-message-timeline\/\">this rather informative timeline<\/a> of Osama messages.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.inthebullpen.com\/\">In the Bullpen<\/a>:  not only one of the best blogs out there for Islamist terror news, rumors and analysis, but also outstanding customer service.  Check it out &#8230; frequently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chad Evans at In the Bullpen yesterday linked to a story about an Aussie terror expert who theorized that Osama bin Laden was &#8220;certainly either severely incapacitated or dead.&#8221; Today, Chad has a link to a story where the US counter-terror ambassador states bin Laden is alive. Me, personally, I&#8217;m hoping for dead, and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-blogroll","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323","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=1323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}