{"id":985,"date":"2010-03-17T22:11:39","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T03:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/delicious.com\/url\/e57589249328122cbca6dc135ceaae94#tomathon"},"modified":"2013-10-16T20:23:26","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T01:23:26","slug":"aqim-reports-of-the-travels-of-the-tiloa-attackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/03\/aqim-reports-of-the-travels-of-the-tiloa-attackers\/","title":{"rendered":"AQIM: Reports of the travels of the Tiloa attackers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeune Afrique reports sightings of the AQIM men who attacked the Nigerien army post at Tiloa, in the far north of Tillaberi last week. Apparently the Army knew there was a chance of attack somewhere in the area, having asked for reinforcements two days&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeune Afrique reports sightings of the AQIM men who attacked the Nigerien army post at Tiloa, in the far north of Tillaberi last week. Apparently the Army knew there was a chance of attack somewhere in the area, having asked for reinforcements two days&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/03\/aqim-reports-of-the-travels-of-the-tiloa-attackers\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[75,107,106,174,66],"tags":[241,249,386,569,387,385],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":919,"url":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/03\/niger-military-post-raided-on-mali-border\/","url_meta":{"origin":985,"position":0},"title":"Niger: Military post raided on Mali border","date":"March 8, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Reports are coming in of an attack by unknown assailants on the army post at Tiloa, a village around 12km from the Malian border. 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