Boko haram is being sponsored by the northern political, and religious class. Their reasons?... Since coup is no longer feasible for them to grab power as usual, and their false claim to numerical strenght can not guarantee them victory through the ballot box, they now decided to form a killer squard in other to bomb their way to aso rock. They intend to hold on to power, in order to fufill the dream of their late great-grand father, usman dan-fodio of islamising the entire west Africa. As long as Jesus is on the throne, they have failed. So no amount of fact-twisting and lies by ms Nafeesa and her likes, can deceive us.

odun4love: Are they trying to tell us that they cant catch them....
With all there super power and intelligences... This all they can come up with.

Only God can save us.

Its not America's responsibility to 'catch' them...it is your fake government's problem!

Jonathan is a major sponsor of bokoharam. He wants to attract sympathy nd also reduce votes from APC strongholds. God will see us!

Infact this is simply trash as far as I'm concerned, these guys are not ghost and its so funny even the US can't just track these guys down. Its always obvious they are being sponsored somehow but who? We are not sure of

eluquenson: To a large extent, my opinion is US are also having hands in this Boko Haram menace, they want this govt down cos the money realized from oil is just too much for a nation like Nigeria to manage that's why there is high rate of corruption & embezzlement, they have the zeal to put their own candidate on the throne & most likely divert our fund to their treasury in US, this US are capable of doing anything to protect their own well being. I could remember vividly last year when Vladmir Putin accused Obama of funding rebel groups against Asad in syria. Many things will unfold soon as 2015 draw closer.

Why is it that Nigerians are so foolish,blaming USA,GEJ,shatimma n co Blame ALLAH for the massaca of millions all around the world.

Nawa ooo. God we ask 4 your intervention.

One thing I personally believe is that they can't kill us all if they like let them detonate a bomb that can capture two state at once but when they meet with their dead end I will personally wish they are being killed little by little. I also believe US is trying to do a slow under-G investigations hopefully they produce something tangible this time.

Any person who believes those trash written there is a ......

Old recycled news of half truths.
I reported something similar months ago.

Somebody high up in the Nigerian military is handing these weapons to bokoharam, they don't need to steal it. I just feel sorry for the poor soldiers who are risking their lives on a war they will never win.

otokx:

Bros its like film trick o, the more you look the darker and hotter it becomes.

tochman: Nigerians can be really funny o. GEJ and PDP sponsoring boko haram to the detriment of their administration? Hilarious i tell you

You are the only humanbeing here that is using his brain.GEJ,PDP sponsoring BH and they XCLUDE ALLAH and his doctrine of JIHAD

those weapons they use are not locally made, definately there is someone giving it to them.

All I know is that these blood sucking animals are not spirits.......God will put them to shame soon.

mickyarams: Somebody high up in the Nigerian military is handing these weapons to bokoharam, they don't need to steal it. I just feel sorry for the poor soldiers who are risking their lives on a war they will never win.

Thats why i feel sorry for Nigeria

mtchew....

oduastates: Everybody know that the Jonathan led military is boko haram's quartermaster.
Rather than fight , they cut and run leaving behind all their military hardware for the terrorist to loot and resupply
You cannot fail to mention the brain dead and corrupt military chiefs who cannot provide just one fortified forward operating stations (base) for their troops.
Nigeria ,
Dead country.

go and sleep... how did US know that the weapon is stolen from Nigerian Army if they are so clean if this matter

berem: PDP na Boko Haram,Boko Haram na PDP

-Andrew Owoye Azazi

why re u filled with lies, Why can't u let the dead rest in peace by saying what he did not say.

Pls find that Azazi video on YouTube and listen carefully to what he said.

atlwireles: Is truly amazing, how the americans are desperately trying to protect their northern islamic friends.

I was really wondering what it is that transpired during the northern govs travel to US. The US sound like Northern Nigeria is now the 51st state of America and their leaders American citizens.

I no fit shout !!!!!!

Nigerians why do you like chasing ghost al d time? Is only d victims of bh dat wil tel d story better. God help us allll.

Aderupoko2: Let the wise decipher the answer.... America has told you who is not sponsoring Boko Haram

America also told the world that there are weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Always keep in mind that American foreign policy is geared towards the advancement of the USA and nothing else. America is not your friend, it's never about you, but always about them.

eluquenson: To a large extent, my opinion is US are also having hands in this Boko Haram menace, they want this govt down cos the money realized from oil is just too much for a nation like Nigeria to manage that's why there is high rate of corruption & embezzlement, they have the zeal to put their own candidate on the throne & most likely divert our fund to their treasury in US, this US are capable of doing anything to protect their own well being. I could remember vividly last year when Vladmir Putin accused Obama of funding rebel groups against Asad in syria. Many things will unfold soon as 2015 draw closer.

This is true, currently they are training rebels in Turkey to fight in Syria.

www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/26/obama-seeking-500m-training-moderate-syrian-rebels

www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2014/06/27/obama-wants-500-million-to-train-syrian-rebels-now-what/

So what aspect of the body of the article supports the headline: "Boko Haram Not Sponsored By Anti-Jonathan Politicians: US Officials Expose Group"

The only aspect that relate to the above headline is the statement below

It is widely assumed in Nigeria that Boko Haram receives support from religious sympathizers inside the country, including some wealthy professionals and northern Nigerians who dislike the government, although little evidence has been made public to support that assertion.

Can we by any stretch of imagination extrapolate the above quote to mean that "Boko Haram Not Sponsored By Anti-Jonathan Politicians".

I'm sorry, but I cant see the connection. If there is "little evidence" to support a position, why still use the word "NOT" in the headline? Even if there is no (zero) evidence, does that mean something does not exist?

I think some foreign elements are just too desperate to cover up for their northern politician friends. The whole article is the jaundiced opinion of some foreign elements with vested interests.

I thought it had been reported several that boko haram use weapons the nigerian military can only dream of.How come they get non-existing sophisticated weapons from the military? Liesssss!

Nafeesa AA:

I am a Muslim, and a Northerner.I have travelled through all areas of the north,know people of diverse ideologies! But still haven't met anyone that understands the phenomenum of Boko haram. Its unfortunate that in Nigeria, many claim to be educated but are actually illiterates. Many like you will say Buhari is behind boko haram IBB, the Northern elders are all behind boko haram etc but without actually any proof,whereas those found making incriminating comments are given a breathin space. How do we help solve the problem when everybody points accusing finger to the wrong people?

Before it was IBB, then Chiroma, then Atiku, then Buhari, Ango Ibrahim. No it was Nndume, then Babangida ALIYU, it later turn to Kwankwaso, Lamido Sanusi, then shifted to Nyako and then Shettima, now na American. Today if I am a credible opposition to GEJ I instantly become I boko haram sponsor.
Let all the citizens be wise. If any part of the country wishes to secede, it should employ a civilised and conventional means instead of cheap blackmail.

El-rufai! Na u be that?

odun4love: Are they trying to tell us that they cant catch them....
With all there super power and intelligences... This all they can come up with.

Only God can save us.

Nigerians? U ppl are the same everywhere. In the first place where u supportive of the U.S. coming to nigeria- no! Now u have not allowed him fish out boko haram, becuse u/ur leaders(OBANSANJO) are the ones using it. And if they want to say the truth that it us that are involve in our own mess, we might also leak their secret and foul play the made within us. Thats why the are telling that they cant fight boko haram, to help divert the public from suspecting the CABBALS! We need revolution, and its an inevitable war that must come if nigeria and it manipulators dont realease D yoke. Remeber Rehoboam and Isreal's case.

Lots of simpletons here saying jargons! Some people would just open their mouth gbaga and talk gbaga.

I weep for this country.

The same US trained Osama.

US should just shut up and do the needful

Nafeesa AA: Someone wrote this

I cannot for the life of me comprehend how utterly irrational some people are: So
just to discredit GEJ, APC/Northerners will:
1. Create, arm, sustain and support Boko Haram on a rampage that;

a. Kills hundreds of Muslims
b. Destroys Northern Schools
c. Bombs Mosques
d. Slaughter their own kids
e Kidnap their girls
f. Kill their imams
g. Destroys their cities, crops, livestock, and livelihood
h. Turns them to refugees across Cameroon and Niger
2. Just to deny Jonathan a second term, the North will
a. Ravage its Economy
b. Destroy its Political base
c. Murder APC members

See how silly that looks? if the North wants to discredit GEJ, it instead would attack PDP members, GEJ Loyalist and structures. In short, the North and/or BH will fundamentally direct their insurgency at the socio-political base of GEJ so as to create disillusionment, disaffection, fear and frustration from his brethren and supporters especially those from the North.

FACTS
Someone, somewhere is fomenting this unrest precisely to generate the reaction of
the most nigerians gullible afterall. BH is a creation of someone, somewhere to discredit the north, destroy its economy and people, divide its unity, destabilize it politically, and ultimately cause the balkanization of nigeria. And it shall fail insha Allah.

this is also my suspicion

Nafeesa AA: Boko Haram Not Sponsored By Anti-Jonathan Politicians: US Officials Expose Group

*Group gets most funds from lucrative kidnapping
*Very little evidence and tiny substantial value of any anti-Government politician financial support
*Group receives no substantial aid from al-Qaeda and AQIM
*Group’s weapons are obtained from the Nigerian armory
* How Boko Haram is beating U.S. efforts to choke its financing

By Phil Stewart and Lesley Wroughton

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – When Washington imposed sanctions in June 2012 on Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau, he dismissed it as an empty gesture.

Two years later, Shekau’s skepticism appears well founded: his Islamic militant group is now the biggest security threat to Africa’s top oil producer, is richer than ever, more violent and its abductions of women and children continue with impunity.

As the United States, Nigeria and others struggle to track and choke off its funding, Reuters interviews with more than a dozen current and former U.S. officials who closely follow Boko Haram provide the most complete picture to date of how the group finances its activities.

Central to the militant group’s approach includes using hard-to-track human couriers to move cash, relying on local funding sources and engaging in only limited financial relationships with other extremists groups. It also has reaped millions from high-profile kidnappings.

“Our suspicions are that they are surviving on very lucrative criminal activities that involve kidnappings,” U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Linda Thomas-Greenfield said in an interview.

Until now, U.S. officials have declined to discuss Boko Haram’s financing in such detail.

The United States has stepped up cooperation with Nigeria to gather intelligence on Boko Haram, whose militants are killing civilians almost daily in its northeastern Nigerian stronghold. But the lack of international financial ties to the group limit the measures the United States can use to undermine it, such as financial sanctions.

The U.S. Treasury normally relies on a range of measures to track financial transactions of terrorist groups, but Boko Haram appears to operate largely outside the banking system.

To fund its murderous network, Boko Haram uses primarily a system of couriers to move cash around inside Nigeria and across the porous borders from neighboring African states, according to the officials interviewed by Reuters.

In designating Boko Haram as a terrorist organization last year, the Obama administration characterized the group as a violent extremist organization with links to al Qaeda.

The Treasury Department said in a statement to Reuters that the United States has seen evidence that Boko Haram has received financial support from Al Qaeda in the Islamic Magreb (AQIM), an offshoot of the jihadist group founded by Osama bin Laden.

But that support is limited. Officials with deep knowledge of Boko Haram’s finances say that any links with al Qaeda or its affiliates are inconsequential to Boko Haram’s overall funding.

“Any financial support AQIM might still be providing Boko Haram would pale in comparison to the resources it gets from criminal activities,” said one U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity.

Assessments differ, but one U.S. estimate of financial transfers from AQIM was in the low hundreds of thousands of dollars. That compares with the millions of dollars that Boko Haram is estimated to make through its kidnap and ransom operations.

LUCRATIVE KIDNAPPING RACKET

Ransoms appear to be the main source of funding for Boko Haram’s five-year-old Islamist insurgency in Nigeria, whose 170 million people are split roughly evenly between Christians and Muslims, said the U.S. officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

In February last year, armed men on motorcycles snatched Frenchman Tanguy Moulin-Fournier, his wife and four children, and his brother while they were on holiday near the Waza national park in Cameroon, close to the Nigerian border.

Boko Haram was paid an equivalent of about $3.15 million by French and Cameroonian negotiators before the hostages were released, according to a confidential Nigerian government report later obtained by Reuters.

Figures vary on how much Boko Haram earns from kidnappings. Some U.S. officials estimate the group is paid as much as $1 million for the release of each abducted wealthy Nigerian.

It is widely assumed in Nigeria that Boko Haram receives support from religious sympathizers inside the country, including some wealthy professionals and northern Nigerians who dislike the government, although little evidence has been made public to support that assertion.

Current and former U.S. and Nigerian officials say Boko Haram’s operations do not require significant amounts of money, which means even successful operations tracking and intercepting their funds are unlikely to disrupt their campaign.

Boko Haram had developed “a very diversified and resilient model of supporting itself,” said Peter Pham, a Nigeria scholar at the Atlantic Council think-tank in Washington.

“It can essentially ‘live off the land’ with very modest additional resources required,” he told a congressional hearing on June 11.

LOW-COST WEAPONS

“We’re not talking about a group that is buying sophisticated weapons of the sort that some of the jihadist groups in Syria and other places are using. We’re talking AK-47s, a few rocket-propelled grenades, and bomb-making materials. It is a very low-cost operation,” Pham told Reuters.

That includes paying local youth just pennies a day to track and report on Nigerian troop movements.

Much of Boko Haram’s military hardware is not bought, it is stolen from the Nigerian army.

In February, dozens of its fighters descended on a remote military outpost in the Gwoza hills in northeastern Borno state, looting 200 mortar bombs, 50 rocket-propelled grenades and hundreds of rounds of ammunition. [ID:nL3N0OD3BU]

Such raids have left the group well armed. In dozens of attacks in the past year Nigerian soldiers were swept aside by militants driving trucks, motor bikes and sometimes even stolen armored vehicles, firing rocket-propelled grenades.

Boko Haram’s inner leadership is security savvy, not only in the way it moves money but also in its communications, relying on face-to-face contact, since messages or calls can be intercepted, the current and former U.S. officials said.

“They’re quite sophisticated in terms of shielding all of these activities from legitimate law enforcement officials in Africa and certainly our own intelligence efforts trying to get glimpses and insight into what they do,” a former U.S. military official said.

U.S. officials acknowledge that the weapons that have served Washington so well in its financial warfare against other terrorist groups are proving less effective against Boko Haram.

“My sense is that we have applied the tools that we do have but that they are not particularly well tailored to the way that Boko Haram is financing itself,” a U.S. defense official said.

(Additional reporting by Tim Cocks in Abuja. Editing by David Storey, Jason Szep and Ross Colvin)

http://news.yahoo.com/boko-haram-beating-u-efforts-choke-financing-052820382.html

all I can say is bulllshitt....majority of this but regions sponsors yeah

all acts of terrorism in the world has the hand of america or their knowledge in it.. america should continue deceiving themselves... they were able to locate Saddam in a hole, they send precise drones that target terrorist wherever they are, in rugged and mountainous area of Afghanistan they fight Taliban. yet in an open jungle they can't see book haram or the girls.... now their weapons are obsolete against boko.
.. nonsense