{"id":189056,"date":"2010-05-31T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-01T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/05\/31\/kirk-spock-mccoy-and-ensign-liebowitz-beam-down-who-isnt-coming-back\/"},"modified":"2010-05-31T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-01T01:00:00","slug":"kirk-spock-mccoy-and-ensign-liebowitz-beam-down-who-isnt-coming-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/05\/31\/kirk-spock-mccoy-and-ensign-liebowitz-beam-down-who-isnt-coming-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and Ensign Liebowitz Beam Down.  Who Isn&#8217;t Coming Back?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Answer: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/05\/31\/AR2010053103617.html?hpid=topnews\">Al Qaeda&#8217;s number 3 guy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Al-Qaeda&#8217;s third-ranking operative, an Egyptian who was a founding member of the terrorist network and a key conduit to Osama bin Laden, has been killed in Pakistan, according to a statement Monday from al-Qaeda that U.S. intelligence officials believe is accurate.<\/p>\n<p>A U.S. official said there is &#8220;strong reason&#8221; to believe that Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, known as Sheik Saeed al-Masri, was killed, apparently by a CIA drone strike in Pakistan&#8217;s tribal belt within the past two weeks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen this episode before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Answer: Al Qaeda&#8217;s number 3 guy: Al-Qaeda&#8217;s third-ranking operative, an Egyptian who was a founding member of the terrorist network and a key conduit to Osama bin Laden, has been killed in Pakistan, according to a statement Monday from al-Qaeda that U.S. intelligence officials believe is accurate. A U.S. official said there is &#8220;strong reason&#8221; &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1006,1076,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-terrorism","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189056"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}