{"id":2687,"date":"2014-02-22T23:00:34","date_gmt":"2014-02-23T07:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=2687"},"modified":"2014-02-22T23:00:34","modified_gmt":"2014-02-23T07:00:34","slug":"al-qaida-inspired-group-claims-suicide-bombing-attack-against-lebanese-soldiers-that-killed-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/02\/22\/al-qaida-inspired-group-claims-suicide-bombing-attack-against-lebanese-soldiers-that-killed-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Qaida inspired group claims suicide bombing attack against Lebanese soldiers that killed 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/beirut.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2688\" alt=\"beirut\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/beirut-300x155.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/beirut-300x155.png 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/beirut.png 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr align=\"left\" width=\"90%\" \/>\n<hr align=\"left\" width=\"90%\" \/>\n<p>BEIRUT &#8211; An al-Qaida linked group is claiming responsibility for a suicide bombing against Lebanese soldiers that killed at least three people, the latest attack linked to the neighbouring Syrian war.<\/p>\n<p>The Nusra Front in Lebanon said in a statement on Twitter late Saturday that one of their followers blew himself up at an army checkpoint in the northeastern town of Hermel earlier in the day.<\/p>\n<p>The group said it was targeting the Shiite-dominated town in retaliation for the Shiite militant group Hezbollah fighting alongside troops of Syrian President Bashar Assad. They didn&#8217;t mention targeting soldiers, but Lebanese extremist Sunni groups typically view the army as working in step with Hezbollah.<\/p>\n<p>The Nusra Front in Lebanon appears inspired by an al-Qaida-linked rebel brigade in Syria sharing the same name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIRUT &#8211; An al-Qaida linked group is claiming responsibility for a suicide bombing against Lebanese soldiers that killed at least &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":2688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[286,475],"class_list":["post-2687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-w","tag-al-qaida","tag-lebanon","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}