11-01-2014, 12:50 PM
This is such a colossal mess.
The Nigerian government seems, to me, to spread misinformation as a matter of routine. And, the Boko Haram leader is a crazy fucker who appears to thoroughly enjoy all of the exposure he's receiving from terrorizing the country.
Unsurprisingly, the wide-scale Twitter hashtag campaign to "Bring Back Our Girls" doesn't seem to have helped the abducted girls. Boko Haram leaders have repeatedly mocked the campaign since it was launched.
The latest -- snip:
Nigerian officials announced two weeks ago that they had struck a deal with the Islamist terror group. The deal, the government said, included the release of more than 200 girls whose kidnapping in April at a boarding school in the nation's north stunned the world.
In a video released today, Boko Haram laughed off Nigeria's announcement of a ceasefire agreement, saying there is no such deal and the abducted schoolgirls have been converted to Islam and married off.
![[Image: 140508060601-boko-haram-t1-main.jpg]](http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/140508060601-boko-haram-t1-main.jpg)
"Don't you know the over 200 Chibok schoolgirls have converted to Islam?" Abubakar Shekau (pictured above) said. "They have now memorized two chapters of the Koran." "We married them off. They are in their marital homes," he said, chuckling.
Shekau also said the militant group was holding a German hostage. CNN's attempts to reach officials of Chad, who helped strike the purported deal, were unsuccessful Saturday.
The ceasefire deal announced October 17 followed a month of negotiations with representatives of the group, Hassan Tukur, an aide to Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan, said at the time.
After the deal was announced, the aide said final negotiations on the girls' release would be completed at a meeting a week later in Chad. That day passed without any signs of the girls.
Despite government claims of a ceasefire, Boko Haram fighters have continued deadly attacks on villages, killing scores and abducting an unknown number of people. One attack a day after the purported ceasefire killed eight people.
Days later, members of the Islamist terror group abducted at least 60 young women and girls from Christian villages in northeast Nigeria, residents said Thursday.
The militant group, which shuns western education, is trying to impose strict Sharia law across Nigeria, which is split between a majority Muslim north and a mostly Christian south. Like ISIS, it has ambitions for a caliphate, or religious state.
Ref: http://edition.cnn.com/2014/11/01/world/...?hpt=hp_t1
![[Image: Bring-Back-Our-Girls.jpg]](http://cdn.inquisitr.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Bring-Back-Our-Girls.jpg)
I hope the girls eventually see their surviving family members, but I don't think well-intentioned Twitter demands are gonna help make it happen.
The Nigerian government seems, to me, to spread misinformation as a matter of routine. And, the Boko Haram leader is a crazy fucker who appears to thoroughly enjoy all of the exposure he's receiving from terrorizing the country.
Unsurprisingly, the wide-scale Twitter hashtag campaign to "Bring Back Our Girls" doesn't seem to have helped the abducted girls. Boko Haram leaders have repeatedly mocked the campaign since it was launched.
The latest -- snip:
Nigerian officials announced two weeks ago that they had struck a deal with the Islamist terror group. The deal, the government said, included the release of more than 200 girls whose kidnapping in April at a boarding school in the nation's north stunned the world.
In a video released today, Boko Haram laughed off Nigeria's announcement of a ceasefire agreement, saying there is no such deal and the abducted schoolgirls have been converted to Islam and married off.
"Don't you know the over 200 Chibok schoolgirls have converted to Islam?" Abubakar Shekau (pictured above) said. "They have now memorized two chapters of the Koran." "We married them off. They are in their marital homes," he said, chuckling.
Shekau also said the militant group was holding a German hostage. CNN's attempts to reach officials of Chad, who helped strike the purported deal, were unsuccessful Saturday.
The ceasefire deal announced October 17 followed a month of negotiations with representatives of the group, Hassan Tukur, an aide to Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan, said at the time.
After the deal was announced, the aide said final negotiations on the girls' release would be completed at a meeting a week later in Chad. That day passed without any signs of the girls.
Despite government claims of a ceasefire, Boko Haram fighters have continued deadly attacks on villages, killing scores and abducting an unknown number of people. One attack a day after the purported ceasefire killed eight people.
Days later, members of the Islamist terror group abducted at least 60 young women and girls from Christian villages in northeast Nigeria, residents said Thursday.
The militant group, which shuns western education, is trying to impose strict Sharia law across Nigeria, which is split between a majority Muslim north and a mostly Christian south. Like ISIS, it has ambitions for a caliphate, or religious state.
Ref: http://edition.cnn.com/2014/11/01/world/...?hpt=hp_t1
I hope the girls eventually see their surviving family members, but I don't think well-intentioned Twitter demands are gonna help make it happen.