News update: Boko Haram joins Al-Qaeda network of terrorists There are very strong indications to suggest that al-Qaeda, the global terror organization founded by the late Osama Bin Laden, may have taken control of the notorious and deadly Jama’atu Ahliss-Sunnah Lidda’awati Wal Jihad, popularly known as Boko Haram, Sunday Boko Haram was formed by top politicians in Borno State to promote political advantage using religious persuasion. The politicians have since lost control of the band of terrorists. . The problem, however, according to sources, is that “except Cameroun enters into concrete collaboration with Nigeria, nothing can be done”. The alleged arrowhead of the take-over, which is the al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, AQIM, has its headquarters in Algeria. Generally, AQIM is said to be funding and equipping Boko Haram. One of the sources added, “The revelation confirms Nigeria’s intelligence services assessment and worries that the previously unknown group has received training and support from al Qaeda. “Even at that time, Algerian Deputy Foreign Minister, Abdelkader Messahel, told journalists that intelligence report showed both groups had been coordinating. ”We have no doubts that coordination exists between Boko Haram and al Qaeda.” Reuters news agency quoted Messahel as saying “the way both groups operate and intelligence reports show that there is cooperation”. AQIM was said to have grown out “of a conflict in Algeria between the government and Islamist militants”. An intelligence report said, “In the past few years, it has expanded its activities to include Mali, Niger and Mauritania but was not thought to have reached as far south as Nigeria”. “The source went further: “It was these same people who moved easterly through Niger Republic and were causing problems in northern Nigeria. “It was the emergency rule declared by President Goodluck Jonathan, the efficacy of which hemmed the terrorists to the north eastern states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa and even across the Nigerian borders that has restricted their activities to attacking soft targets”. The source disclosed that the funding the sect members enjoy is not only derived from their robbery activities but from their links with AQIM; the sophistication of their attacks is also as a result of the strong involvement of AQIM. Camps uncovered Military sources confirmed that some of the camps used as hideouts by members of Boko Haram have been identified in North-western Cameroun. Information provided last week by highly dependable sources suggest that the vastness of the border between Nigeria and Cameroun makes it very difficult if not impossible to fully police the area. “The reality on ground is that it is not possible for Nigeria’s security forces to carry out aerial bombardment of the hideouts of the terrorists,” one of the sources told Sunday Vanguard. “These camps have been identified but we cannot just go into another country and carry out bombing sorties. “If the type of collaboration between Niger and Nigeria existed between Cameroun and Nigeria, we would have achieved more successes.
Posted on: Sun, 09 Mar 2014 14:45:04 +0000
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