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Boko Haram kidnappings in Nigeria are justified by the Koran
By Bob Taylor, Communities Digital News 2 hours ago



CHARLOTTE, NC, May 7, 2014 –It only took the kidnapping of almost 300 young girls in Nigeria for American media to figure out that Boko Haram is bad news.

Several lesser known blogs and internet outlets have been warning us about Boko Haram for nearly two years, but the mainstream press has, for the most part, ignored what is arguably the most ruthless and vicious of all the Islamic extremist groups.

It has been said before, but it is worth repeating that in the simplest of terms all you need to know about Islam can be summed up in three words: justification, victimization and intolerance. The kidnappings by Boko Haram in Nigeria fall into the justification category.

The fourth chapter, or Surah, of the Koran is entitled “Women” or Al-Nisa’ in Arabic. Only three other chapters are longer since the Koran’s Surahs are arranged by length from the longest to the shortest. Two verses stand out prominently in Chapter Four which Boko Haram uses to justify the kidnappings.

Surah 4:3 of the Koran says,

“I you fear that you cannot treat orphans with fairness , then you may marry other women who seem good to you; two, three, four of them. But if you fear that you cannot maintain equality among them, marry only one or any other slave-girls you may own. This will make it easier for you to avoid injustice.”

The popular, and politically correct, convention is that we are “not at war with Islam.

That’s a little like saying during World War II that “we are not at war with Germany, but that Hitler guy is a bad dude.” All any reasonable person has to do is read the verse above to see how easily Boko Haram can “justify” the horrific kidnapping acts it has committed in Nigeria. Is that not proof enough that we are, indeed, at war with Islam?

According to the Koran, if you must restrict yourself to one wife, it is completely acceptable to take advantage of your slaves since they do not have the same rights as a wife. Such thinking is sickening by any standard, yet it is justified by Boko Haram.

Further reading in the Koran says,

“Also married women, except those whom you own as slaves. Such is the decree of God. All women other than these are lawful for you, provided you court them with your wealth in modest conduct, not in fornication.” (Surah 4:24)

As Robert Spencer of “Jihad Watch” points out, we were warned of such actions as long ago as May, 2011 by the Egyptian Sheikh Abu-Ishaq al-Huwayni who said, “’we are in the era of jihad,’ and that as they waged jihad warfare against infidels Muslims would take slaves.”

Spencer adds that not long after al-Huwayni made his pronouncement that a female Kuwaiti named Salwa al-Mutairi also justified the practice of Islamic sexual slavery of non-Muslim women with a frightening example about the guidelines for Islamic morality.

“…A merchant told me that he would like to have a sex slave. He said he would not be negligent with her, and that Islam permitted this sort of thing. He was speaking the truth. I brought up (this man’s) situation to the muftis in Mecca. I told them that I had a question, since they were men who specialized in what was halal, and what was good, and who loved women. I said, “What is the law of sex slaves?

“The mufti said, “With the law of sex slaves, there must be a Muslim nation at war with a Christian nation, or a nation which is not of the religion, not of the religion of Islam. And there must be prisoners of war.

“Is this forbidden by Islam?,” I asked.

[b]“Absolutely not. Sex slaves are not forbidden by Islam. On the contrary, sex slaves are under a different law than the free woman. The free woman must be completely covered except for her face and hands. But the sex slave can be naked from the waist up. She differs a lot from the free woman. While the free woman requires a marriage contract, the sex slave does not–she only needs to be purchased by her husband, and that’s it. Therefore the sex slave is different than the free woman.”[/QUOTEb]

Such practices are unimaginable to Western morality, yet they still exist in the ancient tenants of Islam which is a medieval religion lost in the 21st century with no way out because it is incapable of reform.

As long as we continue to believe that we are not at war with Islam, we are deluding ourselves. Perhaps Boko Haram has awakened a sleeping giant and its media, but the odds are against it.

http://www.commdiginews.com/politics...DwwvrGFr6BC.99

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Vatican calls for release of Nigerian schoolgirls

The Vatican on Thursday made an urgent appeal for the release of over 200 Nigerian schoolgirls who were kidnapped by the terrorist group Boko Haram on the night of April 14th. Responding to journalists’ questions, the head of the Holy See Press Office, Fr Federico Lombardi noted that the abduction of so many young girls is just the latest episode of “other horrible forms of violence” for which the militant Islamic group has become known in Nigeria.


“The denial of any kind of respect for life and for the dignity of the human person, even the most innocent, vulnerable and defenseless,” Fr Lombardi said, “calls for the strongest condemnation, arouses the most heartfelt feelings of compassion for the victims and instills a sense of horror for the physical and spiritual suffering and the incredible humiliation they have suffered.”
He said the Holy See adds its voice to the many appeals for the liberation of the girls and for them to be returned to normal life again. “We hope and pray,” Fr Lombardi concluded, “that Nigeria, thanks to the commitment of all who are in a position to help, “may find the way to end the situation of conflict and hateful terrorism which is a source of incalculable suffering.”

The kidnapping and subsequent threat by Boko Haram's leader to "sell" the schoolgirls has provoked international outrage and brought offers of support for rescue efforts from China, the U.S, France and Britain

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Under Hillary Clinton, the State Department repeatedly declined to fully go after the terror group responsible for kidnapping hundreds of girls.

The State Department under Hillary Clinton fought hard against placing the al Qaeda-linked militant group Boko Haram on its official list of foreign terrorist organizations for two years. And now, lawmakers and former U.S. officials are saying that the decision may have hampered the American government’s ability to confront the Nigerian group that shocked the world by abducting hundreds of innocent girls.

In the past week, Clinton, who made protecting women and girls a key pillar of her tenure at the State Department, has been a vocal advocate for the 200 Nigerian girls kidnapped by Boko Haram, the loosely organized group of militants terrorizing northern Nigeria. Her May 4 tweet about the girls, using the hashtag #BringBackOurGirls, was cited across the media and widely credited for raising awareness of their plight.


On Wednesday, Clinton said that the abduction of the girls by Boko Haram was “abominable, it’s criminal, it’s an act of terrorism and it really merits the fullest response possible, first and foremost from the government of Nigeria.” Clinton said that as Secretary of State she had numerous meetings with Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan and had urged the Nigerian government to do more on counterterrorism.

What Clinton didn’t mention was that her own State Department refused to place Boko Haram on the list of foreign terrorist organizations in 2011, after the group bombed the U.N. headquarters in Abuja. The refusal came despite the urging of the Justice Department, the FBI, the CIA, and over a dozen senators and congressmen.

“The one thing she could have done, the one tool she had at her disposal, she didn’t use. And nobody can say she wasn’t urged to do it. It’s gross hypocrisy,” said a former senior U.S. official who was involved in the debate. “The FBI, the CIA, and the Justice Department really wanted Boko Haram designated, they wanted the authorities that would provide to go after them, and they voiced that repeatedly to elected officials.”

In May 2012, then-Justice Department official Lisa Monaco (now at the White House) wrote to the State Department to urge Clinton to designate Boko Haram as a terrorist organization. The following month, Gen. Carter Ham, the chief of U.S. Africa Command, said that Boko Haram “are likely sharing funds, training, and explosive materials” with al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. And yet, Hillary Clinton’s State Department still declined to place Boko Haram on its official terrorist roster.

Secretary of State John Kerry eventually added Boko Haram and its splinter group Ansaru to the list of foreign terrorist organizations in November 2013, following a spate of church bombings and other acts that demonstrated the group’s escalating abilities to wreak havoc.

‪Being placed on the State Department’s list of foreign terrorist organizations allows U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies to use certain tools and authorities, including several found in the Patriot Act. The designation makes it illegal for any U.S. entities to do business with the group in question. It cuts off access to the U.S. financial system for the organization and anyone associating with it. And the designation also serves to stigmatize and isolate foreign organizations by encouraging other nations to take similar measures.

The State Department’s refusal to designate Boko Haram as a terrorist organization prevented U.S. law enforcement agencies from fully addressing the growing Boko Haram threat in those crucial two years, multiple GOP lawmakers told The Daily Beast.

“For years, Boko Haram has terrorized Nigeria and Western interests in the region with few consequences,” Sen. James Risch told The Daily Beast on Wednesday. “The U.S. government should have moved more quickly to list them as a terrorist organization and brought U.S. resources to track and disrupt their activities. The failure to act swiftly has had consequences.”

Risch and seven other GOP senators introduced legislation in early 2013 that would have forced Clinton to designate the group or explain why she thought it was a bad idea. The State Department lobbied against the legislation at the time, according to internal State Department emails obtained by The Daily Beast.

In the House, leading intelligence-minded lawmakers wrote letter after letter to Clinton urging her to designate Boko Haram as terrorists. The effort in the House was led by then-Homeland Security Committee Chairman Peter King and Patrick Meehan, chairman of the Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence.

Meehan and his Democratic counterpart Jackie Speier put out a lengthy report in 2011 laying out the evidentiary basis for naming Boko Haram a terrorist organization, including the group’s ties to al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and to Somalia’s al-Shabab terrorist organization.

In an interview Wednesday, Meehan told The Daily Beast that if Clinton had placed Boko Haram on the terrorism list in 2011, U.S. law enforcement agencies now being deployed to Nigeria to help search for the girls might have been in a better position.

“We lost two years of increased scrutiny. The kind of support that is taking place now would have been in place two years ago,” he said. The designation would have “enhanced the capacity of our agencies to do the work that was necessary. We were very frustrated, it was a long delay.”

Moreover, Meehan and others believe that the Clinton State Department underestimated the pace of Boko Haram’s growth and the group’s intention to plan operations that could harm U.S. critical interests abroad.

“At the time, the sentiment that was expressed by the administration was this was a local grievance and therefore not a threat to the United States or its interests,” he said. “They were saying al Qaeda was on the run and our argument was contrary to that. It has metastasized and it is actually in many ways a growing threat and this is a stark example of that.”

Not everyone agrees that Clinton’s failure to act had significant negative effects. A former senior U.S. counterterrorism official told The Daily Beast that despite the State Department’s refusal to put Boko Haram on the terrorism list, there were several other efforts to work with the Nigerian government on countering the extremist group, mainly through diplomatic and military intelligence channels.

“Designation is an important tool, it’s not the only tool,” this official said. “There are a lot of other things you can do in counterterrorism that doesn’t require a designation.”

Had Clinton designated Boko Haram as a foreign terrorist organization, that wouldn’t have authorized any increased assistance to the Nigerian security forces; such assistance is complicated by the Leahy Law, a provision that prevents the U.S. from giving weapons to foreign military and police units guilty of human rights violations.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...errorists.html

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Andrea Mitchell: Males in Government Not Responding to Nigerian Kidnapped Girls Out of Sexism
May 14, 2014 By Greg Campbell

MSNBC “journalist” Andrea Mitchell commented on Wednesday that she wondered if the males in the U.S. government would have responded quicker to the kidnapped Nigerian girls were not female.

Of course, the men in Benghazi left to be slaughtered by this government were males, so it seems Mitchell’s preferred narrative makes no sense. Our government isn’t anti-women; it’s, evidently, just incompetent and sinister.

Speaking with Sen. Diane Feinstein, Mitchell noted,

“It really calls into question whether the men in charge of our government frankly would have been responding more quickly despite Goodluck Jonathan, the president of Nigeria’s opposition, whether they would have been responding more rapidly if it had been schoolgirls, if it hadn’t been some other premise.”

Sen. Feinstein replied, “You mean if it had involved school boys? No… ”



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJh1-...layer_embedded

http://www.tpnn.com/2014/05/14/andre...out-of-sexism/

comments

What a moron! The United States did not take immediate action because A. The girls are not US citizens, B. Last time I checked, Nigeria was its own country, not part of the United States, and C. Shouldn't you be asking the President this question since it would be his decision/initiative to intervene in a foreign conflict?

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You mean like how the government responded to the distress of the consulate to Benghazi ambassador Stevens and the 3 other patriots???

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They didn't run a photo with a sad face, a sign and a hashtag ... those monsters !!

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The First Lady ✔ @FLOTUS

Our prayers are with the missing Nigerian girls and their families.
It's time to #BringBackOurGirls. -mo



4:03 PM - 7 May 2014

Michelle Obama’s contribution to the #BringBackOurGirls campaign came weeks after a Nigerian activist launched the hashtag that helped interest journalists in the terrorist kidnapping of hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls. The teenybopper administration might believe in “the promise of hashtag,” but the first lady’s frowny-faced photo has been widely criticized as late-to-the-table, impotent slacktivist feelgoodery.
http://twitchy.com/2014/05/07/emptie...f-hashtag-pic/

Here’s the response from Jack of Ranger Up that Blackfive says “sums up my feelings about pouty Twits believing that social media works better than action.” https://www.facebook.com/BlackFive.n...tal_comments=8 http://www.blackfive.net/main/2014/0...s-twitter.html

Nate Anderson @N_J_Anderson

@Ranger_Up's got a point y'know... #BringBackOurGirls #HashtagsDontDoShit



1:58 PM - 9 May 2014

http://twitchy.com/2014/05/13/realit...rspective-pic/

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FLASHBACK: Obama Administration Threatened Nigeria With Sanctions In 2013 For Fighting Boko Haram…



Filed under: Stories the MSM wouldn’t touch with a 10-foot pole.
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/63066

Soon after John Kerry took over as Secretary of State, the U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria, Terence P. McCulley, accused the Nigerian government of butchery during a confrontation with Boko Haram terrorists in Baga, a Nigerian town on the shores of Lake Chad, and in May 2013 threatened to withdraw U.S. military aid from the West African nation. http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvne...ia-over-b.html

Boko Haram militants attacked a Nigerian military outpost in April 2013 outside Baga, killing one soldier. Following the three-day battle human rights activists, including the George Soros-funded and liberal aligned Human Rights Watch, which is not exactly known for its impartiality when it comes to reporting on Islamic issues, claimed the Nigerian military wantonly slaughtered 183 civilians and burned down over 2,000 homes and businesses.

The Nigerian government denied the claims saying the death toll and destruction had been vastly overstated by its enemies, and in fact 30 Boko Haram terrorists, 6 civilians and one soldier, had died in the fighting. Reports from the Baga clinic, which treated 193 people following the battle, but only 10 with serious injuries, seemed to back up the Nigerian government claim that no large-scale massacre had occurred.

The U.S. Nigerian Ambassador, blindly believing any Islamist sob story that crossed his path, responded in a May 2013 meeting with human rights activists by defending Boko Haram:

Mr. Terrence announced to the activists that the US congress had previously passed a law that bars the United States from rendering military assistance to any government that violates basic rights of citizens. He said the Obama led US government has therefore ceased to assist Nigeria militarily in obedience to the law.
http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvne...ia-over-b.html

The threat of military sanctions, and whether or not they were actually implemented, is an open question as there has been zero coverage of this issue in the mainstream media, may have had a chilling effect on Nigerian military operations against Boko Haram. Since Ambassador McCulley’s proclamation the Nigerian civilian death toll by Boko Haram Islamic militants has skyrocketed over the past year.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-27396702

http://weaselzippers.us/186144-flash...ng-boko-haram/

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-Kevin Barrett, Veterans Today Editor

Takfiri militants, disguised as Muslims, are committing crimes in different parts of the world in a bid to defame Islam, an analyst tells Press TV in an interview.

“These people (militants)… are committing so many atrocities in the name of Islam, this is like a big Public Relations campaign to smear Islam,” Kevin Barrett told Press TV.

He said Takfiri groups have hired “only the naïve, credulous, often young, excitable Muslims.”

“Increasingly, the rest of the Muslim community has seen correctly that this is not real Islam,” said Barrett.

He added that the al-Qaeda, claiming to be following Islam, enjoys only a “20 percent approval in the Muslim world.”

The analyst said Muslims have seen “that these Takfiri extremist groups are not real Islam.”

Barrett said the Takfiri groups were created following the “infiltration of the Islamic world by the West during the time of imperialism.”

He said Britain made “common cause with the Wahhabis of Saudi Arabia” to establish Takfiri groups.

Barrett also said Boko Haram Takfiri militants are painting a wrong picture of Islam in Nigeria by banning education.

“All forms of knowledge and education are not forbidden, they are mandatory in Islam,” he said. “This notion of running around, burning down schools, burning all the books, except for those your own particular narrow sect of Islam says you should read, is absurd and it’s completely un-Islamic.”

Boko Haram abducted more than 200 girls from their school in Chibok, northern Nigeria, in mid-April and threatened to sell them as slaves in the market.

The group has claimed responsibility for a number of deadly gun and bomb attacks in various parts of Nigeria since 2009.


“None of this is part of Islam. This is all a modernist heresy and it’s been encouraged and funded by the enemies of Islam to create these public relations operations like the one in Nigeria today,” said Barrett.

Several regions of Nigeria have been hit by deadly violence in recent years. Over the past four years, violence in the north of Africa’s most populous country has claimed the lives of 3,600 people, including killings by security forces.

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Press TV has interviewed political analyst and director of TruthJihad.com Kevin Barrett to discuss atrocities committed by different extremist Takfiri groups against Muslims.

Below is a rush transcript of the interview:

Press TV: We know that attacks by these extremists or Takfiri groups have been taking place in Syria, in Iraq, Afghanistan, and in Pakistan, and as we said again at the beginning of the program, they’re killing Shias and Sunnis. Who do you think these Takfiri groups are? Why are they killing Muslims? Do you believe in the distinctions made by our guest in London?

Barrett: Well, I think our guest is suggesting that these Takfiris are really the George W. Bush school of Islam. That is, “you are either with us or you are with the terrorists.”

This kind of Manichean distinction between absolute black and white, absolute good and evil is not part of Islam. It’s part of various other religious heresies and so on. If we actually look at the true Sunna of the prophet Mohamad (PBUH), you will see that none of these Takfiri tactics and strategies were part of the original Muslim ummah. On the contrary, Prophet Mohamad peace upon him, united people. He did not declare we who have the correct belief will never make any alliances with any of these other people, instead we are going to cut off all their heads. On the contrary, there were alliances with the Christians of Abyssinia, then with the people of Medina, who were not part of the original Muslim community, and with Jews, with Christians, with Arab tribes.

This notion that only people of absolute pure belief are right and everybody else should have their head cut off declared as Kafirs and so on, is a modernist heresy. And if we want to talk about where this comes from, it really came from this infiltration of the Islamic world by the West during the time of imperialism with the British making common cause with the Wahhabis of Saudi Arabia and using them against the Islamic empire at the time, the Ottoman Empire.

That’s where these Takfiri groups are coming from. And they have been manufactured over the past several centuries, increasingly so, and today we have al-Qaeda being really largely a CIA data base of Mujahedeen being sent by the CIA and their Saudi proxies to fight in Afghanistan against the Russians. And that has grown up into sort of a Western intelligence data base of Islamic fighters, some of them with good intentions and some of them who are just criminals and drug smugglers. These people are being used to divide and conquer the Muslim world, and that’s why they are killing Muslims. They are not going after Israel. They are not going after the people of injustice. They are not going after the unjust rulers of Saudi Arabia. Instead they are just going after their fellow Muslims, especially the Muslims that are actually accomplishing anything.

So I think that our guest here in London, whatever his good intentions, his niah, his absolute devotion to purity and everything, he is really taking the wrong path, as have these people in Syria who are committing so many atrocities in the name of Islam. This is like a big Public Relations campaign to smear Islam. And only the naïve, credulous, often young, excitable Muslims fall for it. Increasingly the rest of the Muslim community has seen correctly that this is not real Islam. Al-Qaeda has only about 20 percent approval in the Muslim world – and that’s after this horrific war on Islam post 9/11 that has been murdering millions of Muslims. You would think that all Muslims would be in favor of fighting militantly, but they see correctly that these Takfiri extremist groups are not real Islam.

Press TV: Mr. Barrett, our guest here in London is saying that what we are seeing of those who have been held hostage, the 200 and more girls, images we saw of them praying, shows that they have embraced Islam and that they are being treated nicely, but what does this say about Boko Haram? Is Islam saying then as our guest in London is saying, implement the Shariah that you have to impose it on people? Take people hostage and force them to accept the Shariah?

Barrett: This Boko Haram group does appear to be at least in part, a false flag designed to legitimize US imperial intervention in Nigeria. They may be treating this particular group of kidnapped girls nicely, and that’s wonderful, but in the past this group has conducted a number of atrocities or there have been atrocities committed perhaps by mercenaries, by Blackwater people that have gotten attributed to this group.

Its real function is to legitimize US intervention in Nigeria and even the name “Boko Haram” which means “education is haram” (forbidden) is a ridiculous misnomer, almost as absurd as the word “al-Qaeda” which in at least one Arabia dialect means “the toilet. “This is hardly a good name for such a group. Likewise, Boko Haram meaning “knowledge is forbidden,” that’s ridiculous.


In Islam, we say Prophet Mohamad (PBUH) said to seek knowledge all the way to China. All forms of knowledge and education are not forbidden, they are mandatory in Islam. The ink of a scholar is more precious than the blood of the martyr. This notion of running around, burning down schools, burning all the books, except for those your own particular narrow sect of Islam says you should read, is absurd and it’s completely un-Islamic. Nobody in the great periods of Islamic empires and Islamic learning would have had anything to do with that. If learned people of the greatest golden ages of Islam could look at these groups and see what they are doing, they would be shaking their heads that these are the people that are claiming to be the real Muslims today. This obscurantism, this fanaticism, this tendency towards violence, towards violence against civilians, towards legitimating violence against people who simply believe something that is different from what you do – none of this is part of Islam. This is all a modernist heresy and it’s been encouraged and funded by the enemies of Islam to create these public relations operations like the one in Nigeria today.

And we Muslims – and yes sir, I am a Muslim. I am not a Takfiri, I am a Muslim – we are under attack all over the world because of these public relations operations mounted against us by our enemies. So, why are our people calling themselves Muslims, helping stage these anti-Islam public relations operations? And I think that’s what you seem to be doing from your base in London. And I am not surprised that the authorities in London are having you do this.

Press TV: Your response to that quickly, if you can. We are running out of time.

Barrett: Well, yes there are atrocities being committed on all sides. In fact, the atrocities committed by the avowed enemies of Islam are vastly greater in number and vastly worse than the atrocities of these Takfiris. And that is true in Nigeria and everywhere else as well. But the fact is, simply because we worship Allah alone does not mean that we cannot participate in democratic government. We don’t worship that democracy, yes, that’s idolatry… There is all sorts of knowledge out there and we need to partake in that knowledge and seek justice, not be driven into these narrow kinds of extremism that only lead to destruction and pain.

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/05...aram-a-psy-op/

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Boko Haram Claims It Is Islamic Caliphate
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — Aug 25, 2014, 2:07 PM ET
By HARUNA UMAR Associated Press

Boko Haram, Nigeria's Islamic extremist rebel group, said it controls the northeastern city of Gwoza and has added it to an Islamic state that it claims it has established in Nigeria.

Gwoza, in Borno state, is now part of its "Islamic Caliphate" asserted Boko Haram's leader, Abubakar Shekau, in a video seen on Sunday.

"We are grateful to god for the big victory he granted our members in Gwoza and made the town part of our Islamic Caliphate," Shekau said in the video.

But Nigeria's army said on Twitter: "That claim is empty ... the Nigerian state is still intact."

President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency in three northeastern states in May last year, saying the militants had taken over parts of Borno state, Boko Haram's birthplace.

After the emergency was imposed, the military seemed to be gaining control of parts of the northeast, killing militants and sending them fleeing into neighboring states. But Boko Haram's violent attacks have increased, killing thousands this year.

A Nigerian military official, who insisted on anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to the press, on Monday confirmed that soldiers fighting Boko Haram in the town of Gamboru Ngala, on the border with Cameroon, were forced to flee into Cameroonian territory.

"The fight in Gamboru-Ngala is still ongoing; and our men are living up to their bid; that is all I can say for now," said the official. He couldn't give more details on the clash.

More than 4,000 people — mostly civilians — have been killed this year alone in the conflict, including in attacks by Boko Haram and in responses by the security forces, Amnesty International said on Aug. 5. This compares to an estimated 3,600 people killed in the first four years of the Islamic extremist insurgency.

Nigeria's fight against Boko Haram began in 2009 but took the international spotlight in mid-April when the militants kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls, who still remain captive.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/...iphate-2511541

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Islamic terrorists Boko Haram massacre civilians while describing them as infidels in horrific video
Footage shows terrorists shooting civilians laying face down on floor
There are so many corpses the gunmen have difficulty stepping over them
Thousands of people have been killed in the five-year insurgency

By Sam Webb for MailOnline
Published: 12:06 EST, 21 December 2014 | Updated: 09:19 EST, 22 December 2014

A new video from Nigeria's home-grown Boko Haram extremists shows gunmen mowing down civilians lying face down in a dormitory, and a leader saying they are being killed because they are 'infidels' or non-believers.

There are so many corpses the gunmen have difficulty stepping to reach bodies still twitching with life. Most appear to be adult men.

'We have made sure the floor of this hall is turned red with blood, and this is how it is going to be in all future attacks and arrests of infidels,' the group leader says in a message. 'From now, killing, slaughtering, destruction and bombing will be our religious duty anywhere we invade.'

The video released to journalists late Saturday comes two days after fleeing villagers reported that the extremists are rounding up elderly people and killing them in two schools in Gwoza, in northeast Nigeria.

The setting of the latest video appears to be a school, a long dormitory furnished with bunk beds which the leader says is in Bama, a town 40 miles north of Gwoza.

Students and schools are frequently targeted by Boko Haram, which means 'Western education is sinful' in the Hausa language.

Previously, the militants had told residents of villages and towns that they would kill only enemies and wanted people to live peacefully in the area they have dubbed an Islamic caliphate - a large swathe along Nigeria's northeastern border with Cameroon that they have controlled for more than three months.

In the video, the leader notes that the prophet Mohammed advised prisoners should be held, not killed, but says 'we felt this is not the right time for us to keep prisoners; that is why we will continue to see that the grounds are crimsoned with the flowing blood of prisoners.'


He says some of those killed may call themselves Muslims, but are considered infidels by Boko Haram, a Sunni Jihadi group that imposes strict Shariah law.

The release of this latest video comes just days after Boko Haram was reported to have kidnapped 185 women and children, after slaughtering 32 people in an attack on Gumsuri, a remote village in northeast Nigeria.


“We felt this is not the right time for us to keep prisoners; that is why we will continue to see that the grounds are crimsoned with the flowing blood of prisoners.”

Gumsuri is located on the road that leads to Chibok, where Boko Haram abducted more than 200 girls from a school in April.

Thousands of people have been killed in the five-year Islamic uprising that has driven some 1.3 million people from their homes, with tens of thousands fleeing across borders into Cameroon, Chad and Niger.

Boko Haram has seized a string of towns and villages and in August declared an Islamic caliphate along Nigeria's border with Cameroon.

In recent weeks, Special Forces have been deployed and have recaptured at least four towns with help from air raids, traditional hunters and vigilantes.

Attacks similar to Sunday's violence in Gumsuri have escalated over the last 18 months, with the insurgents taking control of more than two dozen towns and villages in the region.

Kidnappings have also increased, part of a campaign by Boko Haram to boost its supply of child fighters, porters and young women who have reportedly been used as sex slaves.

The military has offered repeated assurances that the uprising will soon be contained, but so far there have been few signs of progress.

The effectiveness of the Nigerian military's response has also been undermined by a number of videos released by the terror group in recent months that purport to show a Boko Haram leader who the military claimed was killed last year.

In one of them, released last November, a man claiming to be Shekau, said that over 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram had been married off to militants.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...fic-video.html

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Boko Haram's 'deadliest massacre': 2,000 feared dead in Nigeria
Amnesty International calls the killings ‘a disturbing and bloody escalation’ and a local defence group says its fighters have given up trying to count the bodies
Monica Mark
Saturday 10 January 2015 05.42 EST

Hundreds of bodies – too many to count – remain strewn in the bush in Nigeria from an Islamic extremist attack that Amnesty International described as the “deadliest massacre” in the history of Boko Haram.

Fighting continued on Friday around Baga, a town on the border with Chad where insurgents seized a key military base on 3 January and attacked again on Wednesday.

“Security forces have responded rapidly, and have deployed significant military assets and conducted air strikes against militant targets,” said a government spokesman.

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District head Baba Abba Hassan said most victims are children, women and elderly people who could not run fast enough when insurgents drove into Baga, firing rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles on town residents.

“The human carnage perpetrated by Boko Haram terrorists in Baga was enormous,” Muhammad Abba Gava, a spokesman for poorly armed civilians in a defence group that fights Boko Haram, told the Associated Press.

He said the civilian fighters gave up on trying to count all the bodies. “No one could attend to the corpses and even the seriously injured ones who may have died by now,” Gava said.

An Amnesty International statement said there are reports the town was razed and as many as 2,000 people killed.

If true, “this marks a disturbing and bloody escalation of Boko Haram’s ongoing onslaught,” said Daniel Eyre, Nigeria researcher for Amnesty International.

The previous bloodiest day in the uprising involved soldiers gunning down unarmed detainees freed in a 14 March 2014 attack on Giwa military barracks in Maiduguri city. Amnesty said then that satellite imagery indicated more than 600 people were killed that day.

The attacks come five weeks away from presidential elections which are likely to trigger even more bloodshed. Already under a state of emergency, the three north-eastern states worst hit by Boko Haram asked the central government for more troops earlier this week. The government has said voting will take place across Borno state although the worsening insecurity means few international observers are likely to get clearance to oversee voting in an area that is traditionally opposition-supporting.

Around 1.5 million people have been displaced by the violence, many of whom will not be able to vote in the polls under Nigeria’s current electoral laws.

Boko Haram also appears to be regionalising the conflict, after threatening neighbouring Cameroon in a video earlier this week.

The government has made no official comment on the alleged massacres. President Goodluck Jonathan skimmed security issues when he relaunched his re-election bid in front of thousands of cheering supporters in the economic capital, Lagos, on Thursday.


The five-year insurgency killed more than 10,000 people last year alone, according to the Washington-based Council on Foreign Relations. More than a million people are displaced inside Nigeria and hundreds of thousands have fled across its borders into Chad and Cameroon.

Emergency workers said this week they are having a hard time coping with scores of children separated from their parents in the chaos of Boko Haram’s increasingly frequent and deadly attacks.

Just seven children have been reunited with parents in Yola, capital of Adamawa state, where about 140 others have no idea if their families are alive or dead, said Sa’ad Bello, the coordinator of five refugee camps in Yola.

He said he was optimistic that more reunions will come as residents return to towns that the military has retaken from extremists in recent weeks.

Suleiman Dauda, 12, said he ran into the bushes with neighbours when extremists attacked his village, Askira Uba, near Yola last year. “I saw them kill my father, they slaughtered him like a ram. And up until now I don’t know where my mother is,” he told the Associated Press at Daware refugee camp in Yola.

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