{"id":23879,"date":"2016-03-14T01:37:49","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T01:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/al-qaeda-affiliate-claims-i-coast-attack-us-based\/"},"modified":"2016-03-14T01:37:24","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T01:37:24","slug":"al-qaeda-affiliate-claims-i-coast-attack-us-based","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/al-qaeda-affiliate-claims-i-coast-attack-us-based\/","title":{"rendered":"Al-Qaeda affiliate claims I. Coast attack: US-based monitors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Al-Qaeda&#8217;s North African affiliate claimed a deadly attack by heavily-armed gunmen on an Ivory Coast resort on Sunday that killed at least 16 people, US-based monitors said.}<\/p>\n<p>In a message posted on its Telegram channels, Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) said three of its &#8220;heroes&#8221; had stormed the Grand-Bassam resort, according to SITE Intelligence Group, which is based just outside Washington.<\/p>\n<p>President Alassane Ouattara said six gunmen had been killed.<\/p>\n<p>The strike, which targeted three hotels in the former French colonial capital that is popular with Western expatriates, also killed 14 civilians and two special forces troops, he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;By the grace of Allah and His granting of success, three heroes from the knights of Qaedat al-Jihad in the Islamic Maghreb were able to storm the tourist resort &#8216;Grand Bassam,&#8217; situated east of the city of Abidjan, in Ivory Coast,&#8221; the SITE Intelligence Group quoted AQIM as saying.<\/p>\n<p>One witness told AFP they heard one of the assailants shouting &#8220;Allahu Akbar&#8221; \u2014 Arabic for &#8220;God is greatest.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The resort lies on the Gulf of Guinea around 25 miles (40 kilometers) east of the commercial hub Abidjan.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-10919 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/gif\/933803-01-02.gif\" alt=\"Ivory Coast&#039;s president Alassane Ouattara. 16 people have been killed by Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb gunmen at a resort on March 13, 2016.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Al-Qaeda&#8217;s North African affiliate claimed a deadly attack by heavily-armed gunmen on an Ivory Coast resort on Sunday that killed at least 16 people, US-based monitors said.} In a message posted on its Telegram channels, Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) said three of its &#8220;heroes&#8221; had stormed the Grand-Bassam resort, according to SITE Intelligence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[2461],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-23879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-daily-nation"],"bylines":[{"id":2461,"name":"Daily Nation","slug":"daily-nation","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2461,"name":"Daily Nation","slug":"daily-nation","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23879"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=23879"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=23879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}