{"id":105089,"date":"2014-01-10T20:05:46","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T20:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/americans-who-fought-in-fallujah-watch-al-qaeda-make-comeback\/"},"modified":"2014-01-10T20:05:46","modified_gmt":"2014-01-10T20:05:46","slug":"americans-who-fought-in-fallujah-watch-al-qaeda-make-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/americans-who-fought-in-fallujah-watch-al-qaeda-make-comeback\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans Who Fought in Fallujah Watch al Qaeda Make Comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><strong> RUSSELL GOLDMAN<\/strong><br \/><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/americans-fought-fallujah-watch-al-qaeda-make-back\/story?id=21411639\">abcnews.go.com<\/a><br \/>January 10, 2014<\/p>\n<p> The crack of gunfire shattered the quiet following afternoon prayers in Fallujah on Thursday, an Iraqi city that U.S. forces once wrested from al Qaeda-linked forces in fierce and bloody fighting and is now a fresh battleground for the terror group.<\/p>\n<p>Inside the ancient city, just 43 miles from Baghdad, Iraqis are once again braced for a siege and say security has declined precipitously over the past year. On Thursday, Iraqi interior ministry officials declared that half of the city was occupied by a brutal wing of al Qaeda called the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.<\/p>\n<p>What little peace this city has seen in the past decade came at the expense of dozens of American Marines who fought al Qaeda-backed insurgents in two battles in 2004. They finally eliminated the al Qaeda forces in a house by house, alleyway by alleyway battle in which Marines had to contend with booby traps, roadside bombs and insurgents who fought with near suicidal determination. <\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This article was posted: Friday, January 10, 2014  at  1:56 pm<\/p>\n<hr>\n<hr>\n<p><!-- share and follow --><!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<hr>\n<hr>\n<p>&lt;!&#8211; this is where we need to show the related articles  <\/p>\n<div class=\"related_articles_container\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">Related Articles<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8211;&gt; <\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/americans-who-fought-in-fallujah-watch-al-qaeda-make-comeback\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Americans Who Fought in Fallujah Watch al Qaeda Make Comeback\">Infowars<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSSELL GOLDMANabcnews.go.comJanuary 10, 2014 The crack of gunfire shattered the quiet following afternoon prayers in Fallujah on Thursday, an Iraqi city that U.S. forces once wrested from al Qaeda-linked forces in fierce and bloody fighting and is now a fresh battleground for the terror group. Inside the ancient city, just 43 miles from Baghdad, Iraqis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-105089","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}