its official ,a nigerian trained in Afghanistan:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8233980.stm

Nigerian 'trained in Afghanistan'
A member of the Nigerian Islamist sect behind a deadly uprising in July has confessed to receiving military training in Afghanistan, police say.

The member of the sect known locally as Boko Haram and Taliban said he was paid $500 to do the training and promised $35,000 (£22,000) on his return.

The uprising in northern Nigeria left some 700 people dead, mostly militants.

If confirmed it would be the first proven link between Islamists in the oil-rich country and Afghanistan.

Local people called the group Taliban because of its radical beliefs.

For years Western diplomats have feared an al-Qaeda sleeper cell might launch attacks on oil infrastructure in Nigeria, which is an increasingly large supplier to the US.


Weapons cache

The man, 23-year-old Abdulrasheed Abubakar, was paraded before journalists in the Borno state capital Maiduguri, where the sect was based and which saw the worst violence.


“ It was the mood of Mohammed Yusuf's teaching - the energy that helped me to join him ”
Abdulrasheed Abubakar

The police also displayed a large cache of weapons and bomb-making equipment recovered from suspected Boko Haram members recently arrested in the northern cities of Yola and Maiduguri.

The BBC's Bilkisu Babangida said Mr Abubakar appeared confident and not at all nervous in front of the journalists.

He explained that he had converted to Islam seven months ago and decided to join the sect after buying the teachings of Boko Haram leader Mohammed Yusuf on cassette.

"It was the mood of Mohammed Yusuf's teaching - the energy that helped me to join him," he told the BBC.

He met Yusuf two weeks after finding the sect in Maiduguri and was asked by the Boko Haram leader to go to Afghanistan, he said.

"I spent three months in Afghanistan. I was trained as a bomb specialist."


Mr Abubakar said he was supposed to train five people on his return, but when he did not receive his money he escaped.

He said that during the uprising in July, when Boko Haram militants, armed mainly with machetes, launched the simultaneous attacks on police stations in different parts of the north, he was in jail in Yola.

After the uprising had been suppressed, many beheaded bodies were found in the sect's headquarters, including at least three Christian preachers and the second in command of the military operation.

Hundreds of sect members were also killed as the security forces retaliated and controversy surrounds the death of Yusuf, who was shot after his arrest.

Police say Yusuf was killed in a shoot-out when he tried to escape, but human rights groups say it was a summary execution.

The sect said it was fighting against Western education and believed Nigeria's government was being corrupted by Western ideas.

It wanted to see Islamic law imposed across the country.

Am curious. How did he get to afghanistan from bauchi in the first place?

ybab:

Am curious. How did he get to afghanistan from bauchi in the first place?

Donkey don finish for bauchi?

. may God help us. . .

If true,this is indeed really frightening !!

methinks the gov needs to step in hard here !!!

Michaeli:

methinks the gov needs to step in hard here !!!

What gov? You mean our Boko Haram gov

naijaking1:

What gov? You mean our Boko Haram gov

True talk - Where de gofment dey?

Na wa o ~!~~~~)

U HUNNN!!!!! hmmm. i just knew it!! i knew those notherners learnt it from those other seriously islamic coutries. i know dey cant do it themselves those nothern illiterates aint dat smart. God!! from bauchi to afghanistan to learn how 2 kill people in your country nawa o! b4 dey kill us, God will kill them 1st. AMEN!!!

You guys should focus on ABUZOLA - ALZAKAWI at least that one has gone to meet muhamadu

Please!

skyone:




You guys should focus on ABUZOLA - ALZAKAWI at least that one has gone to meet muhamadu

Not funny. . .

showbobo:

Not funny. . .

OF COS I KNOW, He should be rooted out

jasmine21:

U HUNNN!!!!! hmmm. i just knew it!! i knew those northerners learnt it from those other seriously Islamic countries. i know dey cant do it themselves those northern illiterates ain't dat smart. God!! from bauchi to Afghanistan to learn how 2 kill people in your country nawa o! b4 dey kill us, God will kill them 1st. AMEN!!!

Amen. This northerners are real danger to our brothers and sister in the south.

now we are being fought from home front ( mend) and from outside ( taliban) no where is safe to hide anymoore.

I couldnt believe my eyes on hiting the news on BBC this morning,
This will also soon be executed by the police jst as Yusuf,
This give a clear understanding that the is a secret behind Yusuf execution by the police,

The member of the sect known locally as Boko Haram and Taliban said he was paid $500 to do the training and promised $35,000 (£22,000) on his return

Who were the people that paid him $500usd for the training and who promised him $35,000?
We are really in a very big trouble in that country

If this is true. Its darn worrisome.

For one funny reason, I do not believe our police. I am sure they have tortured the poor soul into confessing. I think his evidence would start coming apart when he is questioned on the manner of training he received in the Afghan hills. My advice is independent agencies should question him, so he gives names, locations, equipment and sponsors. If not, its just a big pile of bulls*** out police is feeding the world.

For one, I do not think Boko Haram behaved like the typical terrorists. Their modus operandi was wacked. They were just some dumb fanatics that were allowed a leeway into the Nigerian polity because of some corrupt politicians in power.

My 2 cents.

Peace today!

They should stop them from going to Mecca because that's where they are initiated into terrorism. They should also find out their financiers, those guys are not working alone.

He was lying! he is a local terrorist and got no connection with middle easterner.They just need to torture him very well to mention the god father,i know some of the local imam,and the northern kings are behind this.

z-murda:

If this is true. Its darn worrisome.

For one funny reason, I do not believe our police. I am sure they have tortured the poor soul into confessing. I think his evidence would start coming apart when he is questioned on the manner of training he received in the Afghan hills. My advice is independent agencies should question him, so he gives names, locations, equipment and sponsors. If not, its just a big pile of bulls*** out police is feeding the world.

For one, I do not think Boko Haram behaved like the typical terrorists. Their modus operandi was wacked. They were just some dumb fanatics that were allowed a leeway into the Nigerian polity because of some corrupt politicians in power.

My 2 cents.

Peace today!

Very well said.

Hi

the fool

SmashingM:

They should stop them from going to Mecca because that's where they are initiated into terrorism. They should also find out their financiers, those guys are not working alone.

@SmashingM. You have my SUPPORT.

I am still gathering my comments sha on this religious bigotry

Hmmm, boko haram again?

Nigerian police are always known to try scoring cheap points. i bet they've struck a deal with that guy, wanna bet? if a close tab is kept on that guy u would be suprised to see that nothing would be done to him despite his 'confessions'. he may probably be flown out of the country, never to return. i believe this story is utter CRAP! hhmm, we should the arab terrorists alone o, we can't stand them when they trully remember us. common MEND that the police know and pretend not to is giving us wahala. Osama and co, me and my family no follow invite una o, in case una wan come.

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uhm, this is d reward of lack of basic education, who say dey wil fly d guy? sorry o na death dey hungry dat 23yr old fool

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uhm, this is d reward of lack of basic education, who say dey wil fly d guy? sorry o na death dey hungry dat 23yr old fool

Tall tales.

Al Qaida trained terrorists do not fight with bows, arrows and machetes.

They are far more sophisticated than what was witnessed during the Boko Haram saga:
frenzied mindless idiots driven by the Islam coated rantings of a half-literate moronic alfa.