{"id":26728,"date":"2018-12-24T08:22:21","date_gmt":"2018-12-24T08:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=26728"},"modified":"2018-12-24T08:22:21","modified_gmt":"2018-12-24T08:22:21","slug":"resurgent-al-qaeda-looking-to-target-planes-in-europe-uk-security-minister-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=26728","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Resurgent&#8217; al Qaeda looking to target planes in Europe, UK security minister warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>Terror group al Qaeda is &#8220;resurgent&#8221; and looking to carry out attacks on passenger planes in Europe, UK Security Minister Ben Wallace has warned.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">In an interview with British newspaper The Sunday Times, Wallace said al Qaeda &#8212;  the group behind the infamous World Trade Center attacks that killed almost 3,000 people in the US on September 11, 2001 &#8212; &#8220;still aspire for aviation attacks&#8221; and is developing technology to bring down planes.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;The aviation threat is real,&#8221; Wallace said in the interview on Saturday night. &#8220;(Al Qaeda) have reorganized. They are pushing more and more plots towards Europe and have become familiar with the new methods.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Terror group al Qaeda is &#8220;resurgent&#8221; and looking to carry out attacks on passenger planes in Europe, UK Security Minister Ben Wallace has warned.In an interview with British newspaper The Sunday Times, Wallace said al Qaeda &#8212; the group behind the infamous World Trade Center attacks that killed almost 3,000 people in the US on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":26729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}