{"id":45703,"date":"2014-09-05T04:00:03","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T04:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ap_us_plans_major_border_security_program_in_nigeria\/"},"modified":"2014-09-05T04:00:03","modified_gmt":"2014-09-05T04:00:03","slug":"ap_us_plans_major_border_security_program_in_nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45703","title":{"rendered":"(AP) US plans major border security program in Nigeria to thwart Boko Haram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States is preparing to launch a &#8220;major&#8221; border security program to help Nigeria and its neighbors combat the increasing number and scope of attacks by Islamic extremists, a senior U.S. official for Africa said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Nigerian insurgents have begun attacking villages in neighboring Cameroon and have been seizing land in northeast Nigeria where they proclaimed an Islamic caliphate.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant Secretary of State Linda Thomas-Greenfield told a meeting of U.S. and Nigerian officials in Abuja, the Nigerian capital, that &#8220;Despite our collective efforts, the situation on the ground is worsening.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The frequency and scope of Boko Haram&#8217;s terror attacks have grown more acute and constitute a serious threat to this country&#8217;s overall security,&#8221; she said. &#8220;This is a sober reality check for all of us. We are past time for denial and pride.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hosted2.ap.org\/APDEFAULT\/cae69a7523db45408eeb2b3a98c0c9c5\/Article_2014-09-04-AF-Nigeria-US\/id-5d7377c991764d1eab0e99e5e9412254\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States is preparing to launch a &#8220;major&#8221; border security program to help Nigeria and its neighbors combat the increasing number and scope of attacks by Islamic extremists, a senior U.S. official for Africa said Thursday. Nigerian insurgents have<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45703\">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":[39,40,50,42,202,209,143,168,144,426,114,106,659,327,155,578,151,108,148,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45703","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-americau-s-a","category-defense-national-security-military","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-foreign-relations","category-islam","category-law-legal-issues","category-military-armed-forces","category-muslim-christian-relations","category-nigeria","category-other-faiths","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\/45703","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=45703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}