{"id":606,"date":"2015-12-03T10:17:52","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T08:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/?p=606"},"modified":"2015-12-03T10:17:52","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T08:17:52","slug":"time-magazine-person-of-the-year-2015-it-has-to-be-abu-bakr-al-baghdadi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/archives\/606","title":{"rendered":"TIME Magazine Person of the year, 2015? It has to be Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-animation=\"no-animation\" data-icons-animation=\"no-animation\" data-overlay=\"\" data-change-size=\"\" data-button-size=\"0.7\" style=\"font-size:0.7em!important;display:none;\" class=\"supsystic-social-sharing supsystic-social-sharing-package-flat supsystic-social-sharing-content supsystic-social-sharing-content-align-left\" data-text=\"\"><a data-networks=\"[]\" class=\"social-sharing-button sharer-flat sharer-flat-1 counter-arrowed facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fbestinsurance.gr%2Fa1%2Farchives%2F606\" data-main-href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u={url}\" data-nid=\"1\" data-name=\"\" data-pid=\"1\" data-post-id=\"606\" data-url=\"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-mailto=\"\"><i class=\"fa-ssbs fa-ssbs-fw fa-ssbs-facebook\"><\/i><div class=\"counter-wrap arrowed\"><span class=\"counter\">0<\/span><\/div><\/a><a data-networks=\"[]\" class=\"social-sharing-button sharer-flat sharer-flat-1 counter-arrowed twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbestinsurance.gr%2Fa1%2Farchives%2F606&text=TIME+Magazine+Person+of+the+year%2C+2015%3F+It+has+to+be+Abu+Bakr+al-Baghdadi\" data-main-href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url={url}&text={title}\" data-nid=\"2\" data-name=\"\" data-pid=\"1\" data-post-id=\"606\" data-url=\"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-mailto=\"\"><i class=\"fa-ssbs fa-ssbs-fw fa-ssbs-twitter\"><\/i><div class=\"counter-wrap arrowed\"><span class=\"counter\">0<\/span><\/div><\/a><\/div><div class=\"firstPar\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">TIME Magazine Person of the year, 2015? It has to be Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.A decade ago, an obscure Iraqi of no fixed abode called Ibrahim al-Samarrai was completing a brief spell in US detention. Last month, the United Nations made him the world\u2019s public enemy number one.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"secondPar\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>So it was that Samarrai &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/middleeast\/iraq\/10948846\/How-a-talented-footballer-became-worlds-most-wanted-man-Abu-Bakr-al-Baghdadi.html\" target=\"_blank\">better known by his nom de guerre Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi<\/a> &#8211; passed from nonentity to global villain. In a rare moment of unanimity, the Security Council declared the movement he leads to be an &#8220;unprecedented threat\u201d and said every country on the planet should use \u201call necessary measures\u201d to destroy his blood-soaked creation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"thirdPar\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>The passage of UN Resolution 2249 on November 20 probably marked the peak of the murderous career of Baghdadi, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/islamic-state\/\" target=\"_blank\">the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil)<\/a>. He has done nothing but evil and the lives of countless innocents are already seared on his conscience, but as someone who has changed the course of history, no one else has run him close in 2015.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fourthPar\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>As such, Baghdadi deserves to be TIME magazine\u2019s \u201cPerson of the Year\u201d &#8211; to be revealed on December 9, when its editors put the most significant individual of the past 12 months on their cover, as they have been doing since 1927.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fifthPar\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Baghdadi&#8217;s significance in 2015 far exceeds other possible contenders like<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/vladimir-putin\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vladimir Putin<\/a>, who mounted his own quixotic intervention in Syria, and<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/europe\/germany\/angela-merkel\/\" target=\"_blank\">Angela Merkel<\/a>, who decided to throw open Germany&#8217;s doors to 900,000\u00a0refugees.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Read more:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/islamic-state\/12030139\/Person-of-the-year-2015-It-has-to-be-Abu-Bakr-al-Baghdadi.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-animation=\"no-animation\" data-icons-animation=\"no-animation\" data-overlay=\"\" data-change-size=\"\" data-button-size=\"0.7\" style=\"font-size:0.7em!important;display:none;\" class=\"supsystic-social-sharing supsystic-social-sharing-package-flat supsystic-social-sharing-content supsystic-social-sharing-content-align-left\" data-text=\"\"><a data-networks=\"[]\" class=\"social-sharing-button sharer-flat sharer-flat-1 counter-arrowed facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fbestinsurance.gr%2Fa1%2Farchives%2F606\" data-main-href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u={url}\" data-nid=\"1\" data-name=\"\" data-pid=\"1\" data-post-id=\"606\" data-url=\"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-mailto=\"\"><i class=\"fa-ssbs fa-ssbs-fw fa-ssbs-facebook\"><\/i><div class=\"counter-wrap arrowed\"><span class=\"counter\">0<\/span><\/div><\/a><a data-networks=\"[]\" class=\"social-sharing-button sharer-flat sharer-flat-1 counter-arrowed twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbestinsurance.gr%2Fa1%2Farchives%2F606&text=TIME+Magazine+Person+of+the+year%2C+2015%3F+It+has+to+be+Abu+Bakr+al-Baghdadi\" data-main-href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url={url}&text={title}\" data-nid=\"2\" data-name=\"\" data-pid=\"1\" data-post-id=\"606\" data-url=\"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-mailto=\"\"><i class=\"fa-ssbs fa-ssbs-fw fa-ssbs-twitter\"><\/i><div class=\"counter-wrap arrowed\"><span class=\"counter\">0<\/span><\/div><\/a><\/div><p>TIME Magazine Person of the year, 2015? It has to be Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.A decade ago, an obscure Iraqi of no fixed abode called Ibrahim al-Samarrai was completing a brief spell in US detention. Last month, the United Nations made him the world\u2019s public enemy number one. So it was that Samarrai &#8211; better known<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":609,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions\/609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}