{"id":80971,"date":"2019-04-30T09:00:36","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T13:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=80971"},"modified":"2019-04-30T05:39:35","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T09:39:35","slug":"abc-aus-isis-leader-mentions-australian-jihadist-and-sri-lanka-easter-bombings-in-first-appearance-in-five-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=80971","title":{"rendered":"(ABC Aus.) ISIS &#8216;leader&#8217; mentions Australian jihadist and Sri Lanka Easter bombings in first appearance in five years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"first\">A man purported to be reclusive Islamic State (IS) group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has made reference to the Sri Lanka Easter bombings and an Australian IS member in what appears to be his first appearance in five years.<\/p>\n<p>The recently-released propaganda video appears to offer evidence that al-Baghdadi is alive, after many had <a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2017-07-11\/syrian-observatory-has-confirmed-information-is-leader-killed\/8699364\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">speculated he had been killed or seriously injured<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The US has vowed to track down and defeat surviving leaders of the Islamic State group after the release of the video.<\/p>\n<p>In the video, a man purporting to be al-Baghdadi acknowledged <a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2019-03-25\/the-battle-for-islamic-states-final-territory-in-baghouz-syria\/10882816\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">defeat in the group&#8217;s last stronghold \u2014 the Syrian village of Baghouz<\/a> \u2014 but vowed a &#8220;long battle&#8221; ahead.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2019-04-30\/is-leader-appears-in-video-for-first-time-in-five-years\/11057168\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">A man purporting to be reclusive IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi makes his first appearance in five years in a propaganda video: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9D8wu31u9n\">https:\/\/t.co\/9D8wu31u9n<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DOgkTmGrmy\">pic.twitter.com\/DOgkTmGrmy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ABC Religion&amp;Ethics (@ABCReligion) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABCReligion\/status\/1123144224222973953?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 30, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man purported to be reclusive Islamic State (IS) group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has made reference to the Sri Lanka Easter bombings and an Australian IS member in what appears to be his first appearance in five years. The<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=80971\">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":[204,108,487,148,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-nz","category-religion-culture","category-sri-lanka","category-terrorism","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80971","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=80971"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80975,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80971\/revisions\/80975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}