The
leader of Islamist extremist group, Boko Haram said his group has scored
several victories against the military during an ongoing offensive while
themselves sustaining little damage, in a video seen by AFP on Tuesday.
“Since
we started this ongoing war which they call state of emergency ... in some
instances soldiers who faced us turned and ran,” Abubakar Shekau said in the
hour-long video.
He
claimed Nigerian forces “threw down their arms in flight.”
He
called on like-minded Islamists in countries including Afghanistan, Pakistan
and Iraq to join the fight to create an Islamic state in Nigeria.
“We
call to us our brethren in these countries I mentioned. Oh! Our brethren, come
to us,” he said in the video, which alternates between Arabic and the Hausa
language spoken across northern Nigeria.
Nigeria
launched an offensive against Boko Haram on May 15, after President Goodluck
Jonathan declared a state of emergency in the country’s northeast, the Islamist
insurgents’ stronghold.
The
video was delivered to AFP through an intermediary in a manner similar to
previous Boko Haram messages. The images of Shekau in the video are consistent
with those previously released.
If really boko haram is winning d war, why then is their leader calling out to other jihadist for help?
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