Mother and sisters of Fatima Dala, one of the 110 students kidnapped from a girls school in Dapchi, Nigeria, stand by a wall marked with Fatima's writings at their home in February. AFOLABI SOTUNDE/REUTERS
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Islamic State Faction in Nigeria Follows Boko Haram’s Playbook: Kidnapping Schoolgirls
February kidnapping of 110 girls seems similarly intended to bring funds and fame to a new, more dangerous faction

By Joe Parkinson, Drew Hinshaw and Gbenga Akingbule
March 18, 2018 4:00 p.m. ET

DAPCHI, Nigeria—As evening prayers resounded across this northeastern Nigerian town last month, camouflage-clad jihadists drove up to a local girls’ school and kidnapped 110 students in a replay of one of the world’s most infamous abductions: Boko Haram’s 2014 seizure of 276 girls, hours away in Chibok.

But the Feb. 19 attack was different in an important and unsettling way, according to U.S. and Nigerian officials. The culprit wasn’t Boko Haram, but a breakaway faction that is allied with Islamic State and, in the eyes of Washington, the biggest terrorist threat in Africa’s most-populous nation.

This splinter group, known as Islamic State West African Province, is better trained and more focused on Western targets, American officials say. It is also in regular contact with Islamic State commanders in Iraq and Syria, according to internal communications reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

Boko Haram’s Chibok kidnapping sparked a global campaign—#BringBackOurGirls—and ultimately won it a €3 million ($3.7 million) ransom, according to officials involved in the exchange, as well as world-wide notoriety.

The copycat attack seems similarly intended to bring the Islamic State faction funds and fame. The 110 hostages are girls from Dapchi Girls Science and Technology College, the youngest aged 10.

“They’ve learned something: You can make money from taking girls,” said Jacob Zenn, an analyst at the Jamestown Foundation, a foreign-policy think tank, who provided some of the communications between Islamic State and Boko Haram.

Nigeria’s government response this time suggests it may pay again: On Tuesday, President Muhammadu Buhari said he would try to negotiate the girls’ release, rather than risk a military confrontation. Several senior Nigerian and Western officials said backchannel talks were already under way.

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Ok

I started having trust issues with some people when my mother called and said,come i won't beat you

Abeg who is this guy?

chaii see intelligent terrorists
not this local champion terrorist we have in aso rock

Buhari is a an illiterate terrorist a local champion terrorist
a gworo chewing bastard burukutu sipping gorilla
Thunder scatter Buhari Insha'Allah amin
Thunder scatter Buhari Insha'Allah amin
Thunder scatter all Buhari's supporters masha Allah amin
wallu wallah
kiss the truth

This is high level intelligence report that Nigeria security couldn't put together.

And buhari told us that he will soon bring them back

this is serious, kidnapping is a lucrative business in naija, now a multi million dollar industry. I mean ( kidnap industry )

Isis sect group is more deadly



May Allah protect those girls.

Nigeria bury your dead. If a Nigerian had provided this information,by he would have been arrested or killed

As long as there's payment there won't be an end to kidnapping for ransom by these terrorists.

It's totally a disgrace to naija security architecture that truckloads of girls were moved across villages and no security Intel to forestall such.

You negotiate with terrorists you lose you don't negotiate you lose cos it's a win win situation for BH whilst conflict merchants gets paid as usual and the government continues to dish out propaganda in suppressing the truth about insurgency in the north east whilst the circle continue.

Naija seems fuc.k both ways as helpless Nigerians / innocent girls pays the price for government failures...SMH.

Northern terrorists.
I've defeated Boko Haram , according to Lier Mumuhamad, yet lots of schools in the Northern area have been shut down for the fear of been kidnapped.

Another Money Making venture.... Una well done oooo

Mynd44

This is most entrepreneural move by the new sect.

I mean , if I get millions of Euros for every kidnap, why stop!!

It can only get better

What kind of Bullshit is this? ISWAP is another faction of bokoharam that operates around lake Chad region.

Tweets by a verified white journalist doesn't equate to fact!

What's the difference between boko haram-shekau and boko haram-ISIS? Both are terrorist groups responsible for terrorist killings and destruction of lives and property.

In the end, millions of Euros will still flow into Boko-Haram bank account cotesy of the figure head in Aso Rock.

Oh boy... See better wire tapping, intelligence gathering and proper analysis of the events even during boko Haram days

The FG is making terrorism more rewarding and they are now competing for attention to receive more rewards.
More splinter groups may be coming forth to also compete for the rewards.

kernel504:
Northern terrorists.
I've defeated Boko Haram , according to Lier Mumuhamad, yet lots of schools in the Northern area have been shut down for the fear of been kidnapped.

One Almajiri even cited Defeat of boko-Haram as buhari's achievement. I wonder how boko-Haram can be said to be defeated when almost every school in north east has been shut down due to same boko-Haram.
Buhari's destructive govt are pathological liars.

DeKen:
The FG is making terrorism more rewarding and they are now competing for attention to receive more rewards.
More splinter groups may be coming forth to also compete for the rewards.

APC govt under buhari has made terrorism a very lucrative business. Kudos to them. This will reduce unemployment in the north.

These things started out like impossible joke.
Few men after nothing but their own selfish interest wake up and decide it will be cool if they subject large number of people to mental slavery for easier political manipulation. It will be to their great advantage if they seize the system through large number of willing voter - existing and non-existent - and the defense system to protect themselves from justice.
They hijack a religion that's known for physicality and spread the word that education is from the enemy (western enemy) and term education ''western education''. They kept feeding the masses this very appealing lie in bits from different angle for decades until it became ingrained in the heart of the masses.
Today none of the new generation selfish men, can single-handedly change that perception of education being western and forbidden.
The few among the masses who can differ in thinking are used as sacrificial lamb from time to time to illustrate the general rejection of 'western' education.
The Dapchi girls are just part of the few sacrificial lambs. UNIMAID Lecturers and Chibok girls also part of sacrificial lambs. The few who aren't captured under the umbrella of religion aren't left out also. There is fire on the mountain.

GavelSlam:


How do you know?

Put an oyibo face on any product Nigerians would buy it.

In as much as his statement makes sense you are too quick to condemn your own. Forgetting you are Nigerian as well.

Don't forget Oyibos are not like Audu Ogbeh.

heeeeyheeee....
what is happening in this county .....
so we now have another terrorist group as powerful as bokoharm

It is a well known fact that when you give in to terrorist they always come back for more, thats simple and short. Kidnapping thrived because people were paying the ransom, similarly militancy in the Niger Delta thrived also because government was negotiating and paying amnesty to militants as well as giving them fat contracts law abiding citizens never got.

This abduction would escalate in so far that our government is ever ready to mix politics with this evil. Truth be told if we bring in foreign mercenaries who have no political, military affiliation here this bullsh1t will stop immediately, but you know what they will never take that option because it is a case of same of same.
They are all insiders to this evil going on. There is no way, Boko haram will be bold to mention a person as their negotiator if they dont know him well enough. Now you say this same boko haram is releasing some of the abducted Chibok girls yet on the other hand they are still bombing people up and down via suicide bombers what kind of negotiation is that.

Simple logic put together tactically shows that there is a contention somewhere along the line. Someone once said dogs and baboon blood will be mixed together should they lose the 2015 election, another said they would form a parallel government if they loose the 2015 election.
I am want to ask with what were they planning to carry out all these threats if not this same militias.
For me the answer to this madness is all around us, we need to really drain the swamp lemme borrow President Trump statement. We need to get real die hard no nonsense people to wipe out all these sh1t and you will see the whole truth laid bear.
This type of nonsense never happened in the history of our nation, the only closeness to it was during the Abacha era when state killings were rife. Ofcourse the the truth was brought to light when OBJ took over and people started confessing.
The entire North will have to live with this evil they brought upon this nation for their complacency and keeping quiet when it mattered the most.

I cannot imagine that all the top arrests of boko fighters of note are Kabiru Sokotos, Ngoche's (mind you they reported that this one was an ex soldier) etc have not yet yielded any meaningful lue to the real backers of this madness.
One army commander went all out to wipe out the terrorist this same people say he should be tried by UN for war crimes, now this ones are bombing everywhere in Sambisa yet boko is still waxing strong so who are they bombing then inside Sambisa and where are the boko located. Gradually its no longer Sambisa but neighboring countries.
I dont even understand the dead silence of all our past military rulers on this matter. They are just not talking on how to end this, I believe they can have the answer to ending this.

tdayof:
What kind of Bullshit is this? ISWAP is another faction of bokoharam that operates around lake Chad region.

Tweets by a verified white journalist doesn't equate to fact!

Why don't you state the facts you have.

It Pays to be Terrorist in Nigeria

Boko Haram
Fulani Herdsmen

None has been thrown in jail or executed

gratefulheart:
This is high level intelligence report that Nigeria security couldn't put together.

Which is really embarrassing.

just imagine the Psychological trauma the parents of those girls are going through,their children being in the hand of some deadly Godless inhuman terrorists that have no respect dignity for human life, Terrorism is a monster that must be confronted headlong,The FG should engage the assistance of the UN security council,America,Russia and other super powers to help in retrieving these innocent damsels from the hand of those Animals in human skin.

It is NOT ISWAP but the Nigerian Islamic Army and Buhari.

GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT!