{"id":44481,"date":"2014-06-07T18:00:14","date_gmt":"2014-06-07T18:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/reuters_gunmen_posing_as_preachers_kill_dozens_in_northeast_nigeria_police\/"},"modified":"2014-06-07T18:00:14","modified_gmt":"2014-06-07T18:00:14","slug":"reuters_gunmen_posing_as_preachers_kill_dozens_in_northeast_nigeria_police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44481","title":{"rendered":"(Reuters) Gunmen posing as preachers kill dozens in northeast Nigeria \u201d\u201c police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Suspected Islamist militants pretending to be preachers rounded up and killed at least 42 villagers in northeastern Nigeria, a police source said, as an escalating insurgency increasingly targets civilians.<\/p>\n<p>The shootings on the outskirts of the city of Maiduguri late on Wednesday came a day after officials said raiders killed scores in three other settlements in Borno state, where the Boko Haram militant group first launched its campaign to carve out an Islamist caliphate.<\/p>\n<p>The attackers, who were wearing military-style uniforms, drove into the village of Bardari, told people to gather for a sermon and opened fire, the police source told Reuters. &#8220;The people couldn&#8217;t identify them in time as terrorists,&#8221; the source added.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2014\/06\/06\/us-nigeria-violence-idUSKBN0EG27020140606\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suspected Islamist militants pretending to be preachers rounded up and killed at least 42 villagers in northeastern Nigeria, a police source said, as an escalating insurgency increasingly targets civilians. The shootings on the outskirts of the city of Maiduguri late<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44481\">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":[39,40,50,42,202,143,161,426,114,659,327,155,578,151,148,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44481","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-inter-faith-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-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44481","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=44481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}