{"id":41384,"date":"2013-12-04T18:15:08","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T18:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bloomberg_raid_on_nigerian_military_base_shows_boko_haram_threat_growing\/"},"modified":"2013-12-04T18:15:08","modified_gmt":"2013-12-04T18:15:08","slug":"bloomberg_raid_on_nigerian_military_base_shows_boko_haram_threat_growing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41384","title":{"rendered":"(Bloomberg) Raid on Nigerian Military Base Shows Boko Haram Threat Growing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An attack by suspected Islamist militants on a Nigerian air force base indicates the Boko Haram group retains its military capacity even after a seven-month offensive by government forces.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a big deal, it shows the capability of Boko Haram is growing,\u201d\u009d Murtala Touray, senior Africa analyst at IHS Country Risk in London, said today by phone. \u201cFor Boko Haram to plan this attack, it shows they are a force to be reckoned with, they can take on the Nigerian army.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The pre-dawn raid took place yesterday in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state, about 860 kilometers (535 miles) northeast of the capital, Abuja. Two air force personnel were wounded, 24 attackers were killed and three military aircraft and two helicopters were damaged, military spokesman Chris Olukolade said in a statement e-mailed to journalists&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2013-12-03\/raid-on-nigerian-military-base-shows-boko-haram-threat-growing.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An attack by suspected Islamist militants on a Nigerian air force base indicates the Boko Haram group retains its military capacity even after a seven-month offensive by government forces. \u201cIt is a big deal, it shows the capability of Boko<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41384\">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":[39,40,50,42,202,143,168,144,426,114,659,327,155,578,151,148,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41384","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-defense-national-security-military","category-ethics-moral-theology","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-terrorism","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41384","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=41384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}