{"id":32728,"date":"2012-05-27T22:06:30","date_gmt":"2012-05-27T22:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/nigeria_islamic_group_boko_haram_spreads_fear_far_and_wide\/"},"modified":"2012-05-27T22:06:30","modified_gmt":"2012-05-27T22:06:30","slug":"nigeria_islamic_group_boko_haram_spreads_fear_far_and_wide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32728","title":{"rendered":"(LA Times) Nigeria Islamic group Boko Haram spreads fear far and wide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In brutally poor neighborhoods and mansions alike, this city choked by military checkpoints seethes with rumors, paranoia and conspiracy theories. Even academics like to assert a favorite: The homegrown Islamic extremist movement that is terrorizing northern Nigeria is a CIA creation.<\/p>\n<p>Others are convinced that the extremist group known as Boko Haram is a plot by the southern-led Nigerian government to create an eternal crisis in the north.<\/p>\n<p>How else to explain Boko Haram&#8217;s transformation from a group of bearded radicals stashing homemade weapons to an organization that has half the country on military alert and U.S. lawmakers warning of threats to American interests?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-nigeria-boko-haram-20120527,0,572578.story\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In brutally poor neighborhoods and mansions alike, this city choked by military checkpoints seethes with rumors, paranoia and conspiracy theories. Even academics like to assert a favorite: The homegrown Islamic extremist movement that is terrorizing northern Nigeria is a CIA<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32728\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,42,202,144,426,114,659,327,155,578,151,108,148,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-africa","category-foreign-relations","category-islam","category-law-legal-issues","category-muslim-christian-relations","category-nigeria","category-other-faiths","category-policefire","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-terrorism","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}