{"id":12564,"date":"2017-03-24T17:16:29","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T11:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=12564"},"modified":"2017-12-14T16:24:05","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T10:54:05","slug":"london-attacker-convert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/london-attacker-convert\/","title":{"rendered":"London attacker a convert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Had been in jail twice for violent crime<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The terrorist who brought carnage to Westminster on March 22 was a Muslim convert and violent criminal known to Metropolitan Police, it has emerged. The death toll in the attack has, meanwhile, risen to five, including the terrorist, Khalid Masood.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Masood (52) stabbed police constable Keith Palmer to death outside the Palace of Westminster after mowing down pedestrians on the nearby bridge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Masood was born Adrian Elms in Dartford, Kent. He was brought up by a single mother in Rye, East Sussex. He had been in prison twice and police believe he may have been radicalised in jail.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Islamic State has hailed him as one of its \u201csoldiers\u201d after he was shot dead.\u00a0 A statement published by the group\u2019s Amaq propaganda agency claimed responsibility for the attack and said Masood was merely following a call made by it to launch attacks in countries allied to the US-led coalition in Syria and Iraq.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Had been in jail twice for violent crime The terrorist who brought carnage to Westminster on March 22 was a Muslim convert and violent criminal known to Metropolitan Police, it has emerged. The death toll in the attack has, meanwhile, risen to five, including the terrorist, Khalid Masood. Masood (52) stabbed police constable Keith Palmer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":12566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1497,2046],"tags":[2759,2758,2745,214],"yst_prominent_words":[5237,34681,21921,22092,20781,4000,3888,34680,34682],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20170323-23Mar14R.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12564"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12564"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=12564"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=12564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->