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Boko Haram Seek to Imitate 'Inspirational' Islamic State and Establish a African Caliphate
[NEWSWEEK] 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... , the Nigerian terrorist group who sprang to international notoriety after kidnapping 200 schoolgirls in April this year, have seized an area of land the size of Ireland, and are now taking inspiration from Islamic State, who have swept across the Middle East, capturing large parts of Iraq and Syria, say experts. In a July video, Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau paid tribute to Islamic State leader His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us... , who in late June declared himself "the caliph" and "leader of Moslems everywhere". A month later, Shekau declared that he would rule the land annexed by Boko Haram as a caliphate. Now, emboldened by the success of Isis, experts say Boko Haram is beginning to operate like a conventional army in north-eastern Nigeria. The group has recently moved from guerilla tactics - boom-mobiles and kidnappings - towards a policy of taking and holding tracts of land. Posted by: Fred 2014-09-12 |
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