{"id":1660,"date":"2006-02-19T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-19T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=1660"},"modified":"2006-02-19T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-19T18:00:00","slug":"1660","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=1660","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>DOES THE AL QAIDA MEDICAL PLAN INCLUDE DENTAL ?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/austinbay.net\/blog\/\">Austin Bay<\/a><\/strong> reports on that a portion of the captured documents released by the U.S. Army reveal that while al Qaida may have an ultrareactionary-mythic Islamist ideology, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.austinbay.net\/blog\/index.php\">the benefits plan of becoming an al Qaida employee are strikingly modernist<\/a>. Not unlike many a fortune 500 corporation:<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#336666;\">&#8220;On page 16 we discover Al Qaeda is for socialized medicine:<\/p>\n<p><em>3- Medical Benefits<br \/>A- All (Al-Qa\u2019eda) members can visit the medical staff and obtain medicine free<br \/>of charge.<br \/><\/em><br \/>On page 18 we have vacation time:<\/p>\n<p><em>8- Vacations:<br \/>A- For those who work in Peshawar, they are entitled for Fridays, the two holy<br \/>feasts (TC: Al-Adha [during the pilgrimage month] &#038; Al-Fatr [following the end<br \/>of the month of Ramadan]), and a one month annual leave to be enjoyed at the<br \/>end of the eleventh month of work, as well sick leave not to exceed 15 days<br \/>annually.<br \/>B- Those working in camps and in the frontlines:<br \/>Married: Enjoys a 7 day monthly vacation.<br \/>Single: Enjoys a 5 day monthly vacation<br \/>This in addition to the annual and sick leaves mentioned in the above paragraph.<br \/>*Page 11 of 19<br \/>C- If the vacation exceeds what is allowed, then, the relative salary will be<br \/>withheld (prorated) except if those in responsible positions (in order of hierarchy)<br \/>approve a holiday extension.<br \/><\/em><br \/>Not quite France, but close.&#8221;<br \/><\/span><\/strong><br \/>Man does not live by jihad alone it seems. I wonder if al Qaida&#8217;s surprisingly generous program has forced HAMAS, Islamic Jihad, Hizb -ut Tahrir and the IMU to upgrade member compensation in order to remain competitive in recruiting  top level terrorist and administrative talent ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DOES THE AL QAIDA MEDICAL PLAN INCLUDE DENTAL ? Austin Bay reports on that a portion of the captured documents released by the U.S. Army reveal that while al Qaida may have an ultrareactionary-mythic Islamist ideology, the benefits plan of becoming an al Qaida employee are strikingly modernist. Not unlike many a fortune 500 corporation: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}