{"id":2489,"date":"2016-01-20T05:38:28","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T04:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/?p=2489"},"modified":"2016-01-20T05:38:28","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T04:38:28","slug":"islamic-state-media-confirms-jihadi-john-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/?p=2489","title":{"rendered":"Islamic State Media  Confirms &#8220;Jihadi John&#8221; is dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A media outlet associated with Islamic State on Tuesday released a eulogy for &#8220;Jihadi John,&#8221; a member of the militant group who gained notoriety for his filmed execution of hostages, the monitoring organization SITE reported.<br \/><a name=\"more\"><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2490\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ji-300x246.jpg\" alt=\"ji\" width=\"300\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ji-300x246.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ji.jpg 634w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The militant was identified as Mohammed Emwazi, a British citizen of Arab origin. The U.S. military said in November it was &#8220;reasonably certain&#8221; it had killed him in a drone strike.Emwazi was described in Islamic State&#8217;s Dabiq magazine by his nickname &#8220;Abu Muharib al-Muhajir.&#8221;&#8221;On Thursday, the 29th of Muharram, 1437 (Nov. 12, 2015), Ab Muhrib finally achieved shahdah (martyrdom) for the cause of Allah, which he had sought for so long, as the car he was in was targeted in a strike by an unmanned drone in the city of Raqqah, destroying the car and killing him instantly,&#8221; Dabiq said.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>A media outlet associated with Islamic State on Tuesday released a eulogy for &#8220;Jihadi John,&#8221; a member of the militant group who gained notoriety for his filmed execution of hostages, the monitoring organization SITE reported. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/?p=2489\" title=\"Islamic State Media  Confirms &#8220;Jihadi John&#8221; is dead\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,34],"tags":[308,307],"class_list":["post-2489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-pictures-gallery","tag-islamic-state","tag-jihadi-john"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2492,"href":"https:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489\/revisions\/2492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}