{"id":10345,"date":"2012-04-30T08:30:03","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T06:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/al-qaeda-offers-to-free-briton-if-cleric-released\/"},"modified":"2012-04-30T08:30:03","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T06:30:03","slug":"al-qaeda-offers-to-free-briton-if-cleric-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/al-qaeda-offers-to-free-briton-if-cleric-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Qaeda offers to free Briton if cleric released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">DUBAI, April 30<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb<br \/>\nhas offered to release a kidnapped Briton if Britain frees<br \/>\nradical Jordanian preacher Abu Qatada, but it warned against<br \/>\nhanding the cleric over to his native Jordan, a statement on an<br \/>\nIslamist website said on Monday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The initiative to the British government is to release its<br \/>\ncitizen Stephen Malcolm, who also has South African nationality,<br \/>\nif it deports Abu Qatada to one of the &#8216;Arab Spring&#8217; countries,&#8221;<br \/>\nsaid the statement, which could not be verified.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If Britain ignores this offer it will bear the consequences<br \/>\nof handing Abu Qatada to the Jordanian government.&#8221; \t<\/p>\n<p> (Writing by Andrew Hammond; Editing by Paul Simao)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI, April 30 (Reuters) &#8211; Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb has offered to release a kidnapped Briton if Britain frees radical Jordanian preacher Abu Qatada, but it warned against handing the cleric over to his native Jordan, a statement on an Islamist website said on Monday. &#8220;The initiative to the British government is to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-10345","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}