{"id":85049,"date":"2014-05-12T21:24:32","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T17:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=85049"},"modified":"2014-05-12T21:24:32","modified_gmt":"2014-05-12T17:24:32","slug":"nigeria-abducted-girls-boko-haram-leader-claims-captives-converted-to-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=85049","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria abducted girls: Boko Haram leader claims captives converted to Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/boko-haram-nigerian-girls.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-85047\" alt=\"\u0576\u056b\u0563\u0565\u0580\u056b\u0561\u0581\u056b \u0561\u0572\u057b\u056b\u056f\u0576\u0565\u0580\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/boko-haram-nigerian-girls.jpg\" width=\"576\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/boko-haram-nigerian-girls.jpg 640w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/boko-haram-nigerian-girls-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/boko-haram-nigerian-girls-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2014\/04\/17\/world\/africa\/boko-haram-explainer\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Boko Haram<\/a> video emerged Monday purportedly showing some of the kidnapped Nigerian girls in Muslim headdresses and the terror group&#8217;s leader declaring they have converted to Islam.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The video, released by French news agency Agence France-Presse, was shot in a nondescript bush area and showed about 100 girls.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the 27-minute footage, the terror group&#8217;s leader, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2014\/05\/07\/world\/africa\/abubakar-shekau-profile\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Abubakar Shekau<\/a>, says he is willing to exchange the schoolgirls for Boko Haram prisoners.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It shows girls dressed in black and gray hijabs, and reciting the Quran as they make Islamic declarations of faith.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the first purported sighting of the girls abducted last month in the northern town of Chibok. A convoy of Islamist militants drove to a school, seized nearly 300 girls and fled into the night.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/\">\u00a0\u0531\u0576\u056f\u0561\u056d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; A Boko Haram video emerged Monday purportedly showing some of the kidnapped Nigerian&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":85047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,155,137],"tags":[9997],"class_list":["post-85049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","tag-nigeria-abducted-girls","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/85047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}