{"id":41153,"date":"2013-11-20T18:32:36","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T18:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/npr_in_nigerias_bloody_fight_whos_gaining_the_upper_hand\/"},"modified":"2013-11-20T18:32:36","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T18:32:36","slug":"npr_in_nigerias_bloody_fight_whos_gaining_the_upper_hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41153","title":{"rendered":"(NPR) In Nigeria&#39;s Bloody Fight, Who&#39;s Gaining The Upper Hand?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Maiduguri, the prisoner tells journalists that foreign fighters from three neighboring countries were among the insurgents in the Islamist rebellion, fueling widespread fears of the violence spreading beyond Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We do have members of the group from Chad, Cameroon and Niger who actively participate in most of our attacks,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p>Boko Haram boasts of links to al-Qaida and other terrorist groups, adding to the fears of a nation already prone to deadly explosions of tribal and sectarian violence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2013\/11\/20\/246148209\/in-nigerias-bloody-fight-whos-gaining-the-upper-hand\">Read or listen to it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Maiduguri, the prisoner tells journalists that foreign fighters from three neighboring countries were among the insurgents in the Islamist rebellion, fueling widespread fears of the violence spreading beyond Nigeria. &#8220;We do have members of the group from Chad, Cameroon<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41153\">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":[39,40,50,202,143,168,144,114,106,327,578,151,108,148,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-africa","category-defense-national-security-military","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-foreign-relations","category-law-legal-issues","category-military-armed-forces","category-nigeria","category-policefire","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-terrorism","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41153","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=41153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}