{"id":48599,"date":"2015-02-27T17:00:10","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T17:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/washington_post_jihadi_john_is_a_kuwaiti-born_londoner_named_mohammed_emwaz\/"},"modified":"2015-02-27T17:00:10","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T17:00:10","slug":"washington_post_jihadi_john_is_a_kuwaiti-born_londoner_named_mohammed_emwaz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48599","title":{"rendered":"(Washington Post) \u201d\u02dcJihadi John\u2019 is a Kuwaiti-born Londoner named Mohammed Emwazi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For months he taunted, knife in hand, his voice slightly muffled behind the mask that became the grim symbol of Islamic State barbarism.<\/p>\n<p>But when the identity of the killer known as \u201cJihadi John\u201d\u009d was revealed Thursday, the profile that emerged was disturbingly familiar: a young man whose parents\u2019 decision to immigrate to the West afforded him a comfortable life and an education, but who ultimately found identity and succor in extremist ideology.<\/p>\n<p>His name is Mohammed Emwazi. And despite friends\u2019 descriptions of a polite and quiet man not capable of violence, Emwazi\u2019s links to extremist groups appear to have been long-standing, and he was well known to counterterrorism officials in London before he went to Syria.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/jihadi-john-is-a-kuwaiti-born-londoner-named-mohammed-emwazi\/2015\/02\/26\/c5a7373c-bdfd-11e4-bdfa-b8e8f594e6ee_story.html?hpid=z1\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For months he taunted, knife in hand, his voice slightly muffled behind the mask that became the grim symbol of Islamic State barbarism. But when the identity of the killer known as \u201cJihadi John\u201d\u009d was revealed Thursday, the profile that<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48599\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,42,199,168,426,114,155,578,108,148,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-islam","category-law-legal-issues","category-other-faiths","category-policefire","category-religion-culture","category-terrorism","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}