Nigeria: Boko Haram Leader Say Members Travelled To Saudi Arabia For Training And Funding, Vow To Fight Until Formation of Pure Islamic State…
Good read via the UK’s Guardian.
(Guardian) — The Islamist group Boko Haram, which has killed almost 1,000 people in Nigeria, will continue its campaign of violence until the country is ruled by sharia law, a senior member has told the Guardian.
“We will consider negotiation only when we have brought the government to their knees,” the spokesman, Abu Qaqa, said in the group’s first major interview with a western newspaper. “Once we see that things are being done according to the dictates of Allah, and our members are released [from prison], we will only put aside our arms – but we will not lay them down. You don’t put down your arms in Islam, you only put them aside.”
Qaqa, whose name is a pseudonym, said the group’s members were spiritual followers of al-Qaida, and claimed they had met senior figures in the network founded by Osama bin Laden during visits to Saudia Arabia.
The interview comes a week after Boko Haram claimed responsibility forNigeria’s single deadliest terrorist attack, which killed 186 people in the northern city of Kano.
In an audio message posted on YouTube on Friday, the group’s current leader, Abubakar Shekau, threatened to bomb schools and kidnap family members of government officials.
“If [security forces] are going to places of worship and destroying them, like mosques and Quranic schools, you have primary schools as well, you have secondary schools and universities, and we will start bombing them.”
Shekau rejected calls for a negotiated peace from President Goodluck Jonathan, who on Thursday called for the shadowy sect to step out of the shadows and engage in dialogue.
Nigerian officials have voiced hopes for a negotiated settlement with “moderate elements” of the group. “Under the circumstances, if you look hard enough, you can find moderate elements you can communicate with,” General Andrew Azazi, the national security adviser to the president, told the Wall Street Journal on Friday.
Western diplomats say Boko Haram has splintered and the hardliners leading the factions responsible for the wave of violence that has killed some 250 people this year appear to have rejected any suggestion of dialogue.
The Guardian was able to contact Abu Qaqa through an intermediary from the group’s home state. The go-between has been in contact with the group since its inception, and met with its founder, Mohammed Yusuf, several times before he was killed in 2009. For most of the interview he used a voice modulator, but local journalists confirmed that his undisguised voice matched recordings of previous interviews.
Qaqa said Shekau and others had travelled to Saudi Arabia for training and funding. “Al-Qaida are our elder brothers. During the lesser Hajj [last August], our leader travelled to Saudi Arabia and met al-Qaida there. We enjoy financial and technical support from them. Anything we want from them we ask them.”
He said recruits from neighbouring Chad, Cameroon and Niger had joined the group. A recent UN report said weapons from Libya may have been smuggled to Boko Haram and al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb via Chad, Niger and Nigeria.
Security officials and diplomats in Abuja said they had no evidence of a link with al-Qaida in Saudi Arabia, but an official confirmed that “elements of Boko Haram have made contact with external groups”. The extent and frequency of that contact was unknown, the official said.
In the decade since it first appeared, Boko Haram has graduated from crude driveby attacks on beer parlours to bombing security buildings in the northern Muslim heartland. Its most audacious attack targeted the United Nations building in the capital, Abuja, killing 25 in August. In recent weeks, Christians institutions have increasingly come under fire. A Christmas Day bomb attack on a packed church just outside the capital claimed almost 40 lives.
But Qaqa said the rights of the country’s 70 million Christians, who represent half of Nigeria’s population, “would be protected” under the group’s envisioned Islamic state. “Even the prophet Mohammed lived with non-Muslims and he gave them their dues.” But he said everyone must abide by sharia law: “There are no exceptions. Even if you are a Muslim and you don’t abide by sharia, we will kill you. Even if you are my own father, we will kill you.”
Speaking fluent but non-native Hausa, the lingua franca across the Sahelian belt on the cusp of the Sahara desert, he said: “It’s the secular state that is responsible for the woes we are seeing today. People should understand that we are not saying we have to rule Nigeria, but we have been motivated by the stark injustice in the land. People underrate us but we have our sights set on [bringing sharia to] the whole world, not just Nigeria.”
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When will we learn, Saudi is not our friend?
too bad they don’t realise that the Saudi’s hate them and think of them as inferior.
That can’t be the Saudi Arabia that America knows.
Is the American left (“Useful Infidels”) defending this group yet?
Its most audacious attack targeted the United Nations building in the capital, Abuja, killing 25 in August.
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hmmm… no US troops there… just UN offices…
a religion of peace?
not so much
Usful infedel idiots are from somewhere else like AREA 51
too bad they don’t realise that the Saudi’s hate them and think of them as inferior.
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@General..
very true…
the black muslims are the cannon fodder for the elitist Arab muslim
they are getting played… and don’t even realize it…
Make a list of countries trying to become “Pure Islamic States”.
THEY are the enemy.
My inner 6th grader comes out when listening to these clowns’ names Abu Qaqa…a pseudonymn. For what exactly? Pretty much self-explanatory I guess.
Hey Rufus…I think you mean Abu Qaqa…HE is the enema!
a pseudonymn. For what exactly?
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they like making up aliases… to keep Western intel groups busy…
they do the same when they make up new names for their groups after bombings
but the one thing they can’t run from is…
…. they are islamic lap dogs for their Arab masters…
Appears the letter “Q” is also popular with boko haram,
Even if the muzz take over the whole world, there will be NO peace.
They love murder too much. They are addicted to it.
They will eliminate all infidels and then find a reason to kill each other.
Until they are down to the last blood thirsty muzz savage.
Then he will stick a knife in his own bitter heart.
Death is what compels them.
That’s the world on islam.
@chickadee…
you are so right
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A widely quoted Bedouin saying is …
“I against my brother, my brothers and I against my cousins,
then my cousins and I against strangers”.
that guy could be from a photo in Dearborn
or Sea-Tac, or St. Louis, or Newark, or Chicago, or …. [fill in the blank ]
or anywhere where Ja’amat al-Fuqhra has compunds here in the US. Not buyin it ? look up “Hawash Six” Go ahead … I’ll wait
wake up Infidels – the CultiMulti PC-BS is a death warrant
BTW, HNIC provides double-indemnity for violent cohorts here …. Muzz and the NBP/Nation of Islam
he and Brothu Holder have already indicated how they’ll roll
WAKE UP
“….a pseudonym. For what exactly?”
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This explains why Islamists get along so well with Liberals. They are both obsessed with class and status. They want to be judged by the grandiose title they give themselves.
They don’t believe in equality.
“People underrate us but we have our sights set on [bringing sharia to] the whole world, not just Nigeria”
Wake up, Leftists — “colored” Muslims can be Imperialistic.
Yep no need to get our oil from Canada or the Gulf of Mexico just as long as we have our “good friends’ the Sa’uds… Of course we can also choose to ignore the threats that exist right here right now…
What was that Ron Paul was saying about this country being impervious to attacks?
http://sfcmac.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/jamaat-al-fuqra-terrorist-training-compounds-inside-the-united-states/
Andrew C. McCarthy’s recent piece in National Review “Islam is Islam & That’s it”
Jan. 23rd edition, should be required reading for every leftist & Kool Ade drinking Ron Paul follower.
And if we let this President continue, we will be overtaken sooner rather than later!!!
Get him out of office asap, so we can stay the America of Freedom!!
“What was that Ron Paul was saying about this country being impervious to attacks?
http://sfcmac.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/jamaat-al-fuqra-terrorist-training-compounds-inside-the-united-states/”
The same Jamaat al-Fuqra that bombed a Hindu-owned hotel in Portland, Oregon in 1983…Hmm, was that because of American atrocities against the poor oppressed colonized “brown people”, Dr. Paul?
Total tools for Islam
The MB knew they could hijack the 60′s movement and use blacks for soldiers. ( Nation of Islam)
I wish they would really understand that the Qu’ran is not favorable to blacks.
Muhammed called them ” rasin heads”. The Hadith goes out of its way to mention many times that Muhammed was white.
His favorite slave was black, Anjasha. Look at what they did this year in Libya right after they took over—started killing blacks.
The Arabic word ( abd) is that same for African and black slave. Abdallah, means black slave of Allah–not too endearing. Matter of fact they have over 40 names for slaves. Darn, they are really quite industrious lads.
Islam and slavery go hand it hand. They also took over 1 million Europeans ( mamluks) as well so at least we know they are not “racists”. Equal opportunity abusers.
Evidence is mounting that the “dark ages” were in part because of Islam’s march into Christendom
Kill them. Every one of these Islamic pond scum. While we’re at it bomb Mecca and end Islam, the cult of hatred and death.
Question here; if this picture shows a true believer of Pisslam, then why is he wearing body armor. Seems to me the body armor might deprive him of the 72 sturgeons he’s due. Chicken shit!
The world needs a great deal of old fashioned ethnic cleansing and I have some good ideas on where to start.
“People underrate us but we have our sights set on [bringing sharia to] the whole world, not just Nigeria.”
And they will, if we let them!
“All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.”
- Edmund Burke
Meanwhile, The Dear Leader, The Imperial Skinny said with a grin, as he wiped of his chin (of Chavez sponge), “We’re gonna have this Damn Country on its knees yet!!”
* off – but, of course everybody over 40 knows the real limerick, anyways …….
* – I’m getting real sick of this Mac’s self spelling BS – that’s spooge NOT sponge!!!
It is time for us to get rid of the muzzie in the White House.
Its time for us to isolate the saudis by oil independence and by dropping the hammer on their treacherous sheiks by letting them fend off iran and aqap without our help.
The saudis financed the paki nuke program under aq khan.
Let’s put the saudis in a vise between an oil boycott and iran.
In the mean time, I will pray for the Christians being butchered by those murderers in Nigeria.+++
When the Crusaders invaded the holy lands and slaughtered every muslim they could lay their hands on the muslims entered into a peace treaty, albeit short term. Same for Egypt and the Sudan when Britain took over Same for the North African piracy of the Med, , when France and Italy invaded, colonized and ruled by the gun there was a short period of peace. And again the same after Isreal knocked the shit out of the Arabs in ’48 and ’67. So the moral of the story is that the only way to stop the muslims is walk in and and slap them down very hard and to keep slapping them down, the minute you stop slapping and treat them as normal human beings they start up again. An empire that has been created by fear and terror and the sword can only be put down by the same means.We have seen for the last 100 years that the minute the West shows its humanity, rule of law and justice Islam rises against it, be it in Africa, Europe or Asia. If you want to stop Islam conquering it is the easiest thing in the world. Take the Geneva conventions, the human rights laws and put them in the same place where the muslims put them, the garbage can. If a mosque preaches hatred bomb it. When a mullah howls about the glories of the Ummah hang him. When the mobs run riot in a city shoot them. 100 mosques bombed, 100 mullahs hanged, 1,000 rioters shot and another few thousand sent back to whence they came , all the above repeated as needed and Islam will be the most peaceful religion in the world.