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Africa Subsaharan
Boko Haram Targets Region where Powerful Empire once Reigned
2015-02-25
[AnNahar] Long before 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...
's uprising plunged the region into crisis, the area below Lake Chad was part of a powerful Islamic empire, known for religious piety and unity spanning roughly 1,000 years.

The scope of the Kanem-Bornu empire changed repeatedly from its founding in the ninth century to its downfall in the 1890s but at its height the kingdom included modern day northeast Nigeria
Posted by:trailing wife

#1  Wehell ...

* See DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > ISIS MAY REFUSE TO WORK WID BOKO HARAM BECAUSE THEY [Boko Haram] ARE BLACK - DOWNTREND.

BOKO HARAM = INDIAN MUJAHEDEEN = INDONESIA ISLAMISTS = PERT FEARS THAT THESE GROUPS WILL BE ISIS-INSPIRED, + INDEPENDENT OF ISIS OR AL-NUSRA, BUT WORSE MUCH MUCH M-U-C-H LARGER THAN SAME, + MORE RADICALIST OR VIOLENT???

Hence more dangerous + more Region, World-threatening than the ISIS andor Al-Nusra???
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2015-02-25 21:55  

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