{"id":260821,"date":"2010-02-01T12:08:29","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T17:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=21212"},"modified":"2010-02-01T12:08:29","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T17:08:29","slug":"alabama-born-jihad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/260821","title":{"rendered":"Alabama-Born Jihad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/31\/magazine\/31Jihadist-t.html\">New York Times<\/a> has an article on a kid raised as a Southern Baptist in small town Alabama who grew up to become an Al Qaeda-aided Jihadist leader in Somalia:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>As a teenager, his passions veered between Shakespeare and Kurt Cobain, soccer and Nintendo.. \u201cIt felt cool just to be with him,\u201d his best friend at the time, Trey Gunter, said recently. \u201cYou knew he was going to be a leader.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A decade later, Hammami has fulfilled that promise in the most unimaginable way. Some 8,500 miles from Alabama, on the eastern edge of Africa, he has become a key figure in one of the world\u2019s most ruthless Islamist insurgencies. The rebels are known for beheading political enemies, chopping off the hands of thieves and stoning women accused of adultery.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2010\/01\/31\/magazine\/31Jihadist-span\/articleLarge.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times has an article on a kid raised as a Southern Baptist in small town Alabama who grew up to become an Al Qaeda-aided Jihadist leader in Somalia: As a teenager, his passions veered between Shakespeare and Kurt Cobain, soccer and Nintendo.. \u201cIt felt cool just to be with him,\u201d his best [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}