{"id":202,"date":"2010-04-11T23:27:22","date_gmt":"2010-04-11T23:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucefinley.com\/inside-the-war-on-terrorism\/muslim-cleric-targeted-by-us-made-little-impression-during-colorado-years\/"},"modified":"2010-06-08T23:29:40","modified_gmt":"2010-06-08T23:29:40","slug":"muslim-cleric-targeted-by-us-made-little-impression-during-colorado-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/brucefinley.com\/inside-the-war-on-terrorism\/muslim-cleric-targeted-by-us-made-little-impression-during-colorado-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Muslim cleric targeted by U.S. made little impression during Colorado years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Muslim cleric turned terrorist leader – targeted for assassination by the U.S. government – is a Colorado State University graduate who honed his preaching skills in Colorado mosques.<\/p>\n<p>Born in New Mexico, Anwar al-Awlaki arrived in Colorado in 1990 to study at CSU after spending more than 11 years in Yemen. He graduated in 1994, records show, with a degree in civil engineering.<\/p>\n<p>He left little mark here \u2014 no achievements notable or infamous \u2014 and relatively few in Fort Collins or Denver remember him.<\/p>\n<p>Those who did know al-Awlaki recall his emerging gift for oratory and persuasion. Some sensed the stirrings of radicalism in his speeches before he left in the mid-1990s, eventually returning to Yemen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/commented\/ci_14861059?source=commented-news\">Read More <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Muslim cleric turned terrorist leader – targeted for assassination by the U.S. government – is a Colorado State University graduate who honed his preaching skills in Colorado mosques. Born in New Mexico, Anwar al-Awlaki arrived in Colorado in 1990 to study at CSU after spending more than 11 years in Yemen. He graduated in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,12,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-counter-terrorism","category-inside-the-war-on-terrorism","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/brucefinley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/brucefinley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/brucefinley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brucefinley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brucefinley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/brucefinley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/brucefinley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brucefinley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brucefinley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}