{"id":5149,"date":"2014-09-08T14:29:27","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T07:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=5149"},"modified":"2014-09-08T14:29:44","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T07:29:44","slug":"somalia-islamic-militants-planning-retaliation-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/somalia\/somalia-islamic-militants-planning-retaliation-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Somalia: Islamic militants planning retaliation attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MOGADISHU, Somalia &#8211; Somalia&#8217;s government has credible intelligence that Islamic militants are planning attacks following the death of their leader in a U.S. air strike Monday, a top official said.<\/p>\n<p>In a televised speech Friday night, Gen. Khalif Ahmed Ereg, Somalia&#8217;s national security minister, said targets including medical and educational institutions could be targeted. Ereg says the government is vigilant and prepared its armed forces to prevent such attacks.<\/p>\n<p>President Barrack Obama confirmed Friday Ahmed Abdi Godane, the leader of al-Shabab, was killed by the U.S. airstrike&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Somalia News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/somalia-islamic-militants-planning-retaliation-attacks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Somalia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/somalia\/\">Somalia<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOGADISHU, Somalia &#8211; Somalia&#8217;s government has credible intelligence that Islamic militants are planning attacks following the death of their leader in a U.S. air strike Monday, a top official said. In a televised speech Friday night, Gen. Khalif Ahmed Ereg, Somalia&#8217;s national security minister, said targets including medical and educational institutions could be targeted. Ereg [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[253],"tags":[258,256,3242,499,3922,4695,2230,3921,257,4690,442,254,3923],"class_list":["post-5149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-somalia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ahmed-abdi-godane","tag-al-shabab","tag-barrack-obama","tag-east-africa","tag-islamic-militants","tag-khalif-ahmed-ereg","tag-news","tag-somalia","tag-somalia-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-u-s-airstrike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}