{"id":1861,"date":"2008-10-10T09:47:13","date_gmt":"2008-10-10T13:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=1861"},"modified":"2008-10-10T09:48:02","modified_gmt":"2008-10-10T13:48:02","slug":"us-officials-fear-terrorist-links-with-drug-lords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2008\/10\/10\/us-officials-fear-terrorist-links-with-drug-lords\/","title":{"rendered":"US officials fear terrorist links with Latin American drug lords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Associated Press  <\/em>  <\/p>\n<p><strong>US officials fear terrorist links with drug lords   <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>There is real danger that Islamic extremist groups such as al-Qaida and Hezbollah could form alliances with wealthy and powerful Latin American drug lords to launch new terrorist attacks, U.S. officials said Wednesday&#8230;   <\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The presence of these people in the region leaves open the possibility that they will attempt to attack the United States,&#8221; said Allen, a veteran CIA analyst. &#8220;The threats in this hemisphere are real. We cannot ignore them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Added U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration operations chief Michael Braun: &#8220;It is not in our interest to let that potpourri of scum to come together<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ap.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5jsIE-UFw5_bhsz9A-BMzwydnDlkgD93MGFB80\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associated Press US officials fear terrorist links with drug lords There is real danger that Islamic extremist groups such as al-Qaida and Hezbollah could form alliances with wealthy and powerful Latin American drug lords to launch new terrorist attacks, U.S. officials said Wednesday&#8230; &#8220;The presence of these people in the region leaves open the possibility [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}