{"id":1270,"date":"2006-07-10T00:05:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-10T08:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/07\/osama_not_only_paid_for_this_lap_dance_--_he_encouraged_it.html"},"modified":"2008-01-24T19:08:17","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T00:08:17","slug":"osama_not_only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/07\/osama_not_only.html","title":{"rendered":"Osama Not Only Paid For This Lap Dance &#8212; He Encouraged It!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alleged Al Qaeda ringleader <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/local\/story\/433425p-365170c.html\">encouraged to teach economics courses in order to maintain &#8220;secular, fun-loving&#8221; cover<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The alleged ringleader of the tunnel terror plot lived the life of an international playboy &#8212; on orders from Al Qaeda.<\/p>\n<p>Assem Hammoud, 31, even fooled his mother, if Lebanese police and U.S. anti-terror officials are correct.<\/p>\n<p>His mother, Nabila Qotob, said Hammoud drinks alcohol, had girlfriends, traveled widely and showed no similarities to Islamic militants.<\/p>\n<p>She also said Hammoud taught economics at a local university.<\/p>\n<p>To prove her son was no jihadi, Qotob showed off photos yesterday of Hammoud with his father and lounging shirtless on a speeding motorboat in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>There were also very un-Islamic pictures of Hammoud with three smiling women &#8212; none of them wearing veils &#8212; on his arm during an undated stay in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;His morale is high because he is confident he is innocent,&#8221; said Qotob, who said she had recently visited her son in jail.<\/p>\n<p>But Lebanese police, who arrested Hammoud on April 27, said in a statement that the suspect claimed he had been ordered to maintain a fun-loving, secular lifestyle to hide his Islamic militancy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He did just that with perfection,&#8221; the police statement said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alleged Al Qaeda ringleader encouraged to teach economics courses in order to maintain &#8220;secular, fun-loving&#8221; cover: The alleged ringleader of the tunnel terror plot lived the life of an international playboy &#8212; on orders from Al Qaeda. Assem Hammoud, 31, even fooled his mother, if Lebanese police and U.S. anti-terror officials are correct. His mother, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-makes_jack_bauer_scream_dammit","category-tragicomic_ironic_obnoxious_or_absurd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}