{"id":22238,"date":"2014-08-16T13:49:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-16T05:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=22238"},"modified":"2014-08-16T13:49:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-16T05:49:00","slug":"foreign-affairs-says-it-is-aware-of-reports-of-canadian-killed-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/08\/16\/foreign-affairs-says-it-is-aware-of-reports-of-canadian-killed-in-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign Affairs says it is aware of reports of Canadian killed in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15750\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15750\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Baghdad-Iraq.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15750\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Baghdad-Iraq.jpg\" alt=\"Iraqi capital of Baghdad. ShutterStock image\" width=\"1000\" height=\"664\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Baghdad-Iraq.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Baghdad-Iraq-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Baghdad-Iraq-600x398.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15750\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iraqi capital of Baghdad. ShutterStock image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>CALGARY &#8212; The federal government says it is aware of reports that a Canadian has been killed in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>But the Foreign Affairs Department isn&#8217;t confirming it is Farah Mohamed Shirdon, a former Calgary man the CBC has identified as having been radicalized in Canada and gone to the Middle East to fight for Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.<\/p>\n<p>The CBC cited multiple social media reports out of Iraq saying Shirdon has been killed.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, the network aired a propaganda video of Shirdon burning his Canadian passport and threatening U.S. President Barack Obama.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign Affairs says it is monitoring the situation closely.<\/p>\n<p>The department is advising against all non-essential travel to Iraq because of the &#8220;dangerous and unpredictable security situation&#8221; in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CALGARY &#8212; The federal government says it is aware of reports that a Canadian has been killed in Iraq. But &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":15750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}