{"id":55296,"date":"2016-08-04T02:00:09","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T02:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/isis_names_new_leader_of_boko_haram\/"},"modified":"2016-08-04T02:00:09","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T02:00:09","slug":"isis_names_new_leader_of_boko_haram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55296","title":{"rendered":"(WSJ) ISIS names new leader of Boko Haram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islamic State said it appointed a new leader for Boko Haram, in a sign that the Nigerian Islamist insurgency is retooling under the command of the terrorist group.<\/p>\n<p>Sheik Abu Mossab al Bornawi was recently assigned to take command of the Nigerian insurgency, Islamic State\u2019s weekly newsletter Al Naba said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The article didn\u2019t say what happened to Abubakar Shekau, the former face of Boko Haram, who hasn\u2019t been seen in videos since early 2015. It also isn\u2019t clear if Mr. Shekau\u2019s followers support the change in management.<\/p>\n<p>Boko Haram, whose war with Nigeria\u2019s government has left more than 30,000 people dead, declared loyalty to Islamic State in 2015. Mr. Bornawi told al Naba that the two groups have decided \u201cto fight and unite under one umbrella.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/islamic-state-newspaper-names-new-leader-of-boko-haram-1470239684\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamic State said it appointed a new leader for Boko Haram, in a sign that the Nigerian Islamist insurgency is retooling under the command of the terrorist group. Sheik Abu Mossab al Bornawi was recently assigned to take command of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55296\">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":[39,40,50,42,202,119,426,203,327,155,108,148,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55296","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-globalization","category-islam","category-middle-east","category-nigeria","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-terrorism","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55296","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=55296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}