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Boko Haram threatens to sell schoolgirls
[Beirut Daily Star] The Islamist murderous Moslem group Boko Haram... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... grabbed credit Monday for the abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... last month and threatened to "sell them on the market," the French news agency AFP reported, citing a video. Boko Haram on April 14 stormed an all-girl secondary school in the village of Chibok, in Borno state, then packed the teenagers, who had been taking exams, onto trucks and disappeared into a remote area along the border with Cameroon. The brazenness and sheer brutality of the school attack shocked Nigerians, who have been growing accustomed to hearing about atrocities in an increasingly bloody 5-year-old Islamist insurgency in the north. "I kidnapped your girls. I will sell them in the market, by Allah," Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau said in the video, according to AFP, which is normally the first media outlet to get hold of Shekau's videos. Posted by: Fred 2014-05-06 |
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