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Boko Haram top dog voices support for Islamic State and al Qaeda

Jul 13, 2014 2:00 pm By Robert Spencer

NIGERIA-CAMEROON-FRANCE-KIDNAPAmid persistent reports of a deep rift between the Islamic State and al Qaeda, the Congregation of the People of the Sunnah for Dawah and Jihad, aka Boko Haram, is hedging its bets.

“Boko Haram Chief Voices Support for Islamic State’s Baghdadi, al-Qaida,” Agence France Presse, July 13, 2014 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

The head of Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamists has voiced support for the extremist Sunni Islamic State (IS) militants who have taken over large swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria, in a video obtained by Agence France Presse Sunday.

In the 16-minute video, given to AFP through similar channels as past messages, Boko Haram chief Abubakar Shekau also claims responsibility for a June 25 bombing in the capital Abuja and an attack hours later in Lagos which the authorities tried to cover up[.]

He also mocks the social media campaign Bring Back Our Girls which emerged to call attention to the plight of the more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped on April 14 by the Islamists from the remote northeastern town of Chibok.

“We were the ones who detonated the bomb in filthy Abuja,” Shekau said, referring to the attack a popular shopping center that killed at least 22 people.

Later that day, a huge blast rocked the Apapa port district of Lagos, which the authorities blamed on cooking gas explosion, with no casualties.

An AFP investigation has revealed the blast was a deliberate attack involving high explosives.

“A bomb went off in Lagos. I ordered (the bomber) who went and detonated it,” Shekau says in the video, which shows him flanked by at least ten gunmen in front of two armored personnel carriers and two pickup trucks.

“You said it was a fire incident,” he added. “Well, if you hide it from people you can’t hide it from Allah.”

Near the beginning of the video he calls several of the world’s most prominent Islamist extremists his “brethren.”

“May Allah protect you” he said, listing IS chief, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, al-Qaida head Ayman al-Zawahiri, Taliban leader Mullah Omar and several others.

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Filed Under: Al-Qaeda, Boko Haram, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), Nigeria Tagged With: featured


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  1. Jay Boo says

    Jul 13, 2014 at 2:09 pm

    But NPR claims that Boko Haram is just a rag-tag group of self-radicalized insurgents who are simple at odds with the Nigerian government over government corruption and that all our focus should be on chastising the Nigerian government for not sufficiently appeasing this group that the Obama administration (until recently) refuse to call a terrorist organization. (with NPR’s blessing)

  2. John C. Barile says

    Jul 13, 2014 at 2:09 pm

    With a half-billion in loot, and an oil-funded income of 1.5 billion more, Caliph Ibrahim al-Bagdadi can buy allegiances.

    • grabber says

      Jul 20, 2014 at 6:01 pm

      o shut it 😀 islam shall dominate

  3. Jay Boo says

    Jul 13, 2014 at 3:14 pm

    “I am the way the truth and the light” said Jesus.

    Muslims plagiarize and claim that Sharia is the ‘way’
    But Islam’s path of lies leads to desert cave of darkness
    Don’t Drink The Water
    Remember — Islam begins with the letter “I”.
    Islam’s fountainhead fills its river of lies and wends its way to its blood red sea of pride.

    To all the many, many victims of Islam’s false justice a new day is dawning and about to shed a light on this vast darkness.
    One day those who now say “God is great” (to reassure themselves and intimidate) will instead say “GOD IS GOOD” with honest faith.

  4. jihad3tracker says

    Jul 13, 2014 at 3:25 pm

    Keith Ellison and Andre Carson will both be free of legislative “stuff” over the August recess in Washington DC.

    Convincing the Boko Big Cheese that he is SOOOOO WRONG about Islam’s essentially peaceful essence would be quite helpful in preventing more mayhem and slaughter.

    Unless, of course, Ellison and Carson are secretly in a “one for all and all for one” Muslim frame of mind, and what they regret most is Shekau and al-Baghdadi’s screwing up the stealth jihad plan.

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