{"id":46049,"date":"2014-09-25T17:00:55","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T17:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bloomberg_nigerian_army_says_it_killed_man_acting_as_boko_haram_leader\/"},"modified":"2014-09-25T17:00:55","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T17:00:55","slug":"bloomberg_nigerian_army_says_it_killed_man_acting_as_boko_haram_leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46049","title":{"rendered":"(Bloomberg) Nigerian Army Says It Killed Man Acting as Boko Haram Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigerian military said a man who appeared in recent videos claiming to be the leader of the Islamist militant group Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, was killed in a battle last week.<\/p>\n<p>The man, identified as Mohammed Bashir, died when government troops defending the northeastern town of Konduga killed some top Boko Haram commanders in an attack on a convoy of rebel vehicles on Sept. 17, Nigeria\u2019s Defence Headquarters said late yesterday in an e-mailed statement.<\/p>\n<p>Bashir \u201chas been acting or posing on videos as the deceased Abubakar Shekau, the eccentric character known as leader of the group,\u201d\u009d the army said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2014-09-24\/nigerian-military-says-it-killed-man-acting-as-boko-haram-leader.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigerian military said a man who appeared in recent videos claiming to be the leader of the Islamist militant group Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, was killed in a battle last week. The man, identified as Mohammed Bashir, died when<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46049\">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":[39,40,50,42,202,143,168,426,327,155,108,148,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46049","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-islam","category-nigeria","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-terrorism","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46049","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=46049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}