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Alleged Boko Haram Leader Celebrates Charlie Hebdo Massacre by Nobody: 8:20am On Jan 16, 2015
www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/01/15/alleged-boko-haram-leader-celebrates-charlie-hebdo-massacre-in-new-video/

The video, Bloomberg Businessweek reports, appeared on
YouTube on Wednesday in its full-length form, an eight-
minute monologue in which the man claiming to be Shekau
repeatedly states that Boko Haram is “very happy” with the
deaths of a number of the editors of Charlie Hebdo. “Oh you
French people, oh you who follow the religion of democracy,
between you and us is enmity to eternity,” Shekau proclaims
in the video.
The Charlie Hebdo attack, orchestrated by brothers Cherif and
Said Kouachi, resulted in the deaths of twelve individuals,
most were senior editors of Charlie Hebdo. Four more
individuals died in a related attack on a Kosher deli last
Friday by Amedy Coulibaly, another proclaimed jihadi, in an
attempt to help the Kouachi brothers escape. The three jihadis
were eliminated by French law enforcement.
While the full video has been taken down by YouTube, pieces
of it remain, in which the man can be seen holding an AK-47
and sitting before what appears to be an Islamic State flag.
NBC News notes that Flashpoint Intelligence, a jihadi
watchdog group, has confirmed that the video is an official
production of Boko Haram. They note that the video is an
indication that Boko Haram seek to be more influential in the
international jihadist scene, as commenting on international
affairs that did not concern any of their members— as opposed
to posting videos in which Shekau threatens to kidnap more
Nigerian girls or kill more Cameroonian soldiers—is
uncommon for the group in the past. A week before the release
of this video, Shekau appeared in another video doing just
that: threatening Cameroon’s president, Paul Biya, with further
terrorist violence.
Boko Haram rose to international prominence in April 2014
with the kidnapping of more than 200 girls, both Muslim and
Christian, from the northeastern Nigerian town of Chibok.
After months of searching and a hashtag campaign titled
#BringBackOurGirls from the White House, the girls remain
missing, and Boko Haram made its largest headline since then
at the beginning of this year, slaughtering the town of Baga.
Experts, citing witnesses, estimate that Boko Haram killed
2,000 people in their takeover of Baga. Reports in Nigerian
media cite individuals who traveled to Baga in the aftermath
of the attack as seeing the town laden in rotting corpses, with
Boko Haram members not cleaning up the dead and no one
else in the town remaining to give the terrorist group’s victims
a proper burial. “It is corpses everywhere. The whole town
smells of decomposing bodies,” said one witness who wished
to remain anonymous, speaking to Nigeria’s Vanguard
newspaper.
The Nigerian military has, on multiple occasions, announced
that they have killed Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau.
The military announced the death of Shekau most recently in
September, posting gruesome photos of a dead man online
they claimed to be the Boko Haram boss. Evidence was
inconclusive, however, with some arguing that the man killed
was an impersonator. Other terrorism experts suggest that
“Abubakar Shekau” is a stage name taken by the man who
leads Boko Haram during his tenure, possibly taken on from an
original “Abubakar Shekau” who was previously killed. The
man in the video released on January 14 does resemble
physically the images known to be of the Boko Haram leader.
Re: Alleged Boko Haram Leader Celebrates Charlie Hebdo Massacre by Nobody: 8:24am On Jan 16, 2015
smiley.wink
Re: Alleged Boko Haram Leader Celebrates Charlie Hebdo Massacre by fijiano202(m): 8:28am On Jan 16, 2015
Oga oooo...even book haram dey create awarenesss...make people notice them ....God is Watching Them
Re: Alleged Boko Haram Leader Celebrates Charlie Hebdo Massacre by Chanchit: 8:51am On Jan 16, 2015
Confused hediots. You don't want western education and you are all busy using sOcial media.
Re: Alleged Boko Haram Leader Celebrates Charlie Hebdo Massacre by bcomputer101: 8:53am On Jan 16, 2015
God will judge him in 3D

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Re: Alleged Boko Haram Leader Celebrates Charlie Hebdo Massacre by Nobody: 8:57am On Jan 16, 2015
Na Jonathan fault.

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