30 special operatives of the State Security Services, SSS, were sent out of the country.

One of them led the operation that led to the eventual arrest of Abul Qaqa, the notorious spokesman for the Jamaatu Ahlil Sunna Lidawati wal Jihad, otherwise known as Boko Haram. The mission of the operatives was simple: Acquire more knowledge in counter insurgency. The success of the arrest of Qaqa suggests that they’re doing well.

Under strict instructions not to reveal the identities of the SSS operatives who stormed the seeming quiet abode of Qaqa’s hostess, Sunday Vanguard was made to understand that the “acquisition of the fragmented information which were integrated, evaluated, analyzed and interpreted formed the basic intelligence which led to the eventual arrest of Qaqa”.

Indeed, Sunday Vanguard gathered that the arrest was actually made in Kaduna and not Maiduguri as was widely reported.

Also, information made available to Sunday Vanguard by very authoritative sources privy to the on-going interrogation of Qaqa, suggests that the “terror suspect owned up to being the one with the name Abul Qaqa. He owned up on Thursday afternoon”.

According to the security source, “he can be said to have buckled under intense interrogation”.

When Sunday Vanguard asked the security source whether the notorious interrogation technique known as water-boarding, a technique roundly condemned by a section of security experts in the Western world was being employed, the source emphatically said “NO”.

However, the source was able to explain that one of the discoveries during interrogation was that Qaqa operated under many aliases.

With those aliases, “he could assume multiple identities which almost always made him elusive”, Sunday Vanguard was told

The source also made it known that Qaqa has been confirmed to be an Igbira man as against the earlier rumoured origin of Igala.

In fact, Sunday Vanguard discovered that the arrest of Qaqa “was the culmination of months’ long efforts by men of the SSS. “We had been on his trail for some months now.

“He fled from Yobe where he is believed to own a house, to Maiduguri because the heat was becoming a bit unbearable for him. This was before the declaration of emergency rule in some parts of the North.

“From Maiduguri, he moved to Potiskum; again we trailed him there.

“He again moved to Kano before finally hiding in an ‘aunt’s’ residence in Kaduna”.

Sunday Vanguard learnt that when the SSS men stormed the house and requested to know the number of occupants in the house, the said ‘aunt’ feigned ignorance.

And whereas the filial relationship between Qaqa and the said ‘aunt’ could not be established, it was nonetheless “suspected that there was a strong tie between Qaqa and the woman.

“The ‘aunt’ did not want to give him up but for another male member of the household who did not know that Qaqa was a high-value suspect in their house.

“It was while the said ‘aunt’ was playing footsy that the male resident of the house prevailed on her to own up”. Sunday Vanguard was told that the ‘aunt’ was also arrested along with Qaqa on Wednesday. While the intelligence and eventual arrest was carried out by armed men of the SSS, Sunday Vanguard was reliably informed that the military was called in for back up.

According to the source, “this was meant to avert another Kabir Sokoto-style mess of last month – Sokoto, a senior member of Boko Haram escaped from Police custody while in transit. Therefore, when the men began the thorough search of the house, they found Qaqa under the bed from where he was dragged out.

The time was about 4am.

He was immediately moved to the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja, where he is still undergoing interrogation.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/02/the-arrest-and-detention-of-abul-qaqa-how-sss-trailed-boko-harams-spokesman-to-kaduna-the-inside-story/

The report is quite vague in some parts but interesting nonetheless.

positive improvement afterall,

Foolish sss, such info should have been kept private. hardly will any other criminal be trailed like this again.

Goodjob, just don't let him go.

Propaganda! So what will they do to him n d group?

Andy,the SSS have to live up to expectation and as such would to any lenght to prove their worth and remain under the FG payroll or found themselves in the labour market.
As such,if they 'reveal' brief detail of the capture of abu qaqa,who denied in the media he is not the one,trust that there are several other means of catching the man,which would have been bloodier or messier due to many casualties (Nigerian Police style).
I for one believe this SSS report.
Welldone guys.

According to the security source, “he can be said to have buckled under intense interrogation”.

Dem for done shii im mama pieces, I hope its that fucker that was threatening Jonathan and Christians on youtube. Idiot, releasing stuff on the internet is almost
the surest way of giving the authorities a means to track you

Good improvement indeed.

::Andrew:::

Foolish sss, such info should have been kept private. hardly will any other criminal be trailed like this again.

On the surface it appears foolish, buts its following standard practice in the West. For boko haram members, it creates a very terrifying scenario of being doomed even if they attempt to look at their own shadows. How do you operate without a phone? Or with satellites tracking your car (don't doubt it)? Or without internet access? How do you survive knowing that if you revert to the stone age methods of couriers, they aint gonna be tracked? etc etc
The rush to erase such tracks by the guilty will also serve as confirmation to those watching their every move. Recall all the things said about what was expected of Bin Ladens communications?

Bruv, there is every need for the SSS to give out such info, cos it strangles operations and causes boko harams to get jittery (recall boko haram killing 6 of their own in panic last week?) and begin to trip themselves. It leads them to walk into an open net with their eyes open; I imagine that many of them fools would already have been picked up since.

If they really have Abdul Qaqa (the bh spokesman) in their nest, then its a Thumbz Up frm moi!

According to the security source, “he can be said to have buckled under intense interrogation”.

Considering what this may mean, I would definitely expect him to have "buckled"!

but I thought they said it was abu dardaa not abu qaqa that was nabbed

''Therefore, when the men began the thorough search of the house, they found Qaqa under the bed from where he was dragged out.''


He was caught hiding under aunt's bed. Such a silly weakling after-all.

Let them release his picture to the public.

Good job SSS more heads to role soon.

Good job sss,good job NSA and good job GEJ for the presidential wisdom and support!

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Nigerian Repoters sabi form story,repeat story, come dey lie lie on top am.

We are all very unserious and funny people in this our naija

I advice sss dat nigerians deserve to see de face of de devils spokesman,so dat we can catch him if he escape

I thought that d day he will b caught, he will b wearing a suicide vest to fight till death not knwing dat he is d type dat hides under auntys' bed. Vry weak!

''Therefore, when the men began the
thorough search of the house, they found Qaqa under the bed from where he was dragged out.''

The aforequoted, if anything, reveals how poor the SSS operatives are when it comes to lying. And trust me, the ability to lie and be very deceitful is the most important task in covert operations and intelligence gatherings.

Under his Aunt's bed? So the SSS can't even cook up a convincing lie to Nigerians, who are arguably the most gullible set of people to ever walk the Earth's surface. Then how can they lure and track hardened criminals?

They had better return to the field and work their butts of to incarcerate Abu Qaqa instead of wasting insufficient time telling us cheap tales.

Someone should memo the SSS: this is not Alice in Wonderland.

kudos to the sss, hop you can still do more

jude33084:

I thought that d day he will b caught, he will b wearing a suicide vest to fight till death not knwing dat he is d type dat hides under auntys' bed. Vry weak!

People like him are usually cowards who are happy to send others to die. Don't forget that Bin Laden sheilded himself with a woman who had to be shot in the leg before they got him.

Samoo01:

''Therefore, when the men began the
thorough search of the house, they found Qaqa under the bed from where he was dragged out.''

The aforequoted, if anything, reveals how poor the SSS operatives are when it comes to lying. And trust me, the ability to lie and be very deceitful is the most important task in covert operations and intelligence gatherings.

Under his Aunt's bed? So the SSS can't even cook up a convincing lie to Nigerians, who are arguably the most gullible set of people to ever walk the Earth's surface. Then how can they lure and track hardened criminals?

They had better return to the field and work their butts of to incarcerate Abu Qaqa instead of wasting insufficient time telling us cheap tales.

Someone should memo the SSS: this is not Alice in Wonderland.

so why not give us a truer account of what really happened?

In the western world, they won't make a noise until they have gotten enough informations and got all the terrorist cuffed but here de will bla bla bla just to attract attention by the time they have finished blabbing they terrorist will change mode of operation.

@Hollandis: You wasted your time typing LIES in such manners shows you are a BIG LIAR and a stupid one at that! Mitscew!

Lazy Sunday Vanguard, why trying to re-package a story that break days ago and trying to pretend you have contacts in security circle? Well the newest information from Sunday Vanguard is that Abu Qaqa is an Ebira man (not Igbira) if that be the case the SSS should be in for a tough time at cracking him (if he's the one they actually have) because the Ebiras are really TOUGH and when you combine this with his being a RADICAL muslim then God help the SSS!!!

I can see that BH have some members on this forum who are trying hard to debunk the story because they know that this can seriously demoralise their members. Its expected though. All the people calling this story lies are obvious BH members and saboteurs. And just to add that a suicide bomber is not a brave person but a delusional person. There is a big difference. Brave people don't do cheap hit and run attacks. Killing people is not strenght. It is a weakness.

supereagle:

. . . they found Qaqa under the bed from where he was dragged out.

Sorry peeps, i dont really have a comment, just wanted to highlight the funniest part and take my time to laugh his boko a55 off