... 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...has resorted to video propaganda, falsely portraying lavish lifestyles, to recruit new fighters.
The Nigerian military has in the last two weeks embarked on sustained, well-coordinated land and air bombardments, exerting pressure on the Lions of Islam and their sympathisers.
With the resultant surrender of almost 100 Lions of Islam and their families in Nigeria's North East region, in the fringes of Lake Chad in particular, Boko Haram and Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
West Africa Province (Iswap) have resorted to propaganda to attract replacements.
Brig-Gen Onyema Nwachukwu, the army's public relations director, reported that a good number of Lions of Islam has been surrendering to troops.
"Apparently, there are indications that their fighting capability has been severely encumbered by devastating depletion, with their remnants deserting various enclaves," he said.
PSYCHOLOGICAL STRATEGY
He noted that in a bid to replace fighters, they have resorted to clandestine pursuits of unsuspecting individuals whom they want to join their fold.
"They have embarked on a subtle recruitment drive using propaganda videos to portray a lavish lifestyle in their so-called fortress; a psychological strategy desperately deployed to attract impressionable youths and unsuspecting individuals," he said.
"A cursory look at the videos, however, revealed an amateur work of doctored old clips and images from different backgrounds, skewed with blurred imageries that are incoherent and illogical."