Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau, said in a video released yesterday that he led an October 24 attack in which 35 people found in military uniforms were killed in Damaturu, the Yobe state capital..
“Look at what happened in Damaturu,” the head of the Islamist group said in the video obtained by French News Agency (AFP) through the same intermediary as previous clips.
“Since we killed them with our hands — in fact I was the commander of the operation — so, you cannot say I’m making conjecture,” he said.
The authenticity of the video clip — in which Shekau spoke for about 11 minutes in Arabic, Hausa and Kanuri — could not be independently confirmed.
“This is a brief message to the world. We carried out the Damaturu attacks with Allah’s help, with Allah’s might, with Allah’s glory and with victory from Allah, the Creator,” he said.
The video was titled “Battle of Damaturu” in Arabic.
Thirty-five bodies in military uniform were brought to a morgue after a coordinated assault by Boko Haram targeting the security forces, a hospital source had said.
The attack in Damaturu was the first significant raid in a major urban centre in several weeks by the insurgent group waging a four-year Islamist uprising.
Police and residents said large numbers of Boko Haram fighters, some in vehicles and some on foot, stormed Damaturu after dark.
Armed with guns and explosives, they attacked and torched four police buildings, sparking a fierce, hours-long gun battle with the security forces.
Contacted by AFP on October 28, Yobe state military spokesman Capt Lazarus Eli, did not deny reports that dozens of soldiers were killed during the clash.
http://www.nigerianeye.com/2013/11/i-led-attacks-in-yobe-and-we-killed-35.html?m=1

Tanks

I thought this guy is dead

[b][/b]Lobatan

Abeg make una teach me how to make my comment bold. I be learner.

May Allah punish you for killing innocent people!!!
you'll surely be exposed someday... u arent practicing Islam...U are practicing ur own ignorance. Bastard

This man obviously has more than the proverbial nine lives.

Nonso23: Isn't Shekau supposed to be dead?

Him don resurrect. Na him be islam version of Lazarus. Bloody incompetent military.

So that son of a gun neva die
His days are numbered. Anyway

Where is the video?

No video means it didn't happen.

Politics

With all these issues, some fools will think dividing 9ja is a bad idea.

raytony: Him don resurrect. Na him be islam version of Lazarus. Bloody incompetent military.

don't b so ignorant in an informative world of today. Has he(shekau) claimed to b a muslim? Abi d whole thing na religious issue? Abeg use ur brain na....

Now we dnt even knw Wα̲̅†̥ to bliv. After JTF claimed to av killed. Dis guy,he's coming out to blab. I dnt knw why our military does nt employ grand strategy.They mak open every of dia plans even bfor dey execute it. Moreso,wen dey finish an operation,dey still com all out to tell us hw many BH ppl dey killed. Do dey tink dose ones will b apy wit such? Frm my own lil experience,d military is supposed to keep everytin secret until it all over. If only America made knwn dia plans to capture Osama,wld dey av succeeded?

adezjamz: don't b so ignorant in an informative world of today. Has he(shekau) claimed to b a muslim? Abi d whole thing na religious issue? Abeg use ur brain na....

. You get brain? The Allah wey him dey call shey na christians dey worship am? Abi his counterparts dem wey dey Pakistan, Afghanistan etc na wetin all of them be?

I believe shekau is dead, whoever is representing him will also die like him.

Allah is indeed a lucky and merciful deity. He got foot soldiers fighting for him on earth,what a wonderful achievement.

I wonder how any sane person can take delight in killing innocent people and attribute it to the creator's wish.
It would seem there is a grand plot to destroy Islam and religion extremists are doing a fine job of it across the world and the so called custodian of the faith are doing much to counter it.
I doubt if there truly are new converts to Islam now.
Spending money on missionary and humanitarian work instead of weapons and killing would have significantly spread islam.
I'm a bit skeptical about this news until I see the video link.

wasak: May Allah punish you for killing innocent people!!!
you'll surely be exposed someday... u arent practicing Islam...U are practicing ur own ignorance. Bastard

But He is A MUSLIM NA ...... No be so ?

Smh for those that are calling the military incompetent, ya all doing exatcly what the "imposter shekau" wants ya all to do; doubt the competence and credibility of the military campaign and subsequently ask it to be called off. Tons of video evidence proves the imposter is not shekau, he has a more square face, doesnt chew chewing stick which is shekau signature action, the imposter challanges western powers frequently like Us,france,isreal which is unlike shekau, the imposter while recording the video is intensely nervous and in a shaky mood unlike shekau, pictorial evidence prooves further that the imposter have more spiky beards than shekau and puts his face down during the video shooting which suggest he was trying to avoid a clear camera shot, use your brains o yee nairalanders for shekau the presecutor of the brethen is dead and buried..

ebuka Otika:

But He is A MUSLIM NA ...... No be so ?

I'm a Muslim too how many have I killed? or I don't know my religion?

chidindufrank: Allah is indeed a lucky and merciful deity. He got foot soldiers fighting for him on earth,what a wonderful achievement.

wasak:
I'm a Muslim too how many have I killed? or I don't know my religion?

YOU KNOW NADA ABOUT YOUR RELIGION

This is a brief message to the world. We carried out
the Damaturu attacks with Allah’s help, with Allah’s
might, with Allah’s glory and with victory from Allah, the
Creator,”

NOW MY QUESTION IS. WHO IS ALLAH

Boko haram are freedom fighters! Allahu akber!!!

mike404: YOU KNOW NADA ABOUT YOUR RELIGION

kindly teach me!