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Nigeria: Boko Haram, or “Western education is sacrilege”
By African Bulletin on April 6, 2010
“Boko Haram” is the biggest and most feared sect that have proliferated in northern Nigeria in recent years, worrying local secular politicians and Western security services.
Western governments now fear that such group, aided by porous borders with Chad and Niger, is establishing links with the North African al-Qaeda affiliate, AQIM , which operates from bases in a northern African country across the other countries bordering the Saharan desert. The group recently kidnapped tourists in Mali and held them for several months.
Western governments now fear that such group, aided by porous borders with Chad and Niger, is establishing links with the North African al-Qaeda affiliate, AQIM , which operates from bases in a northern African country across the other countries bordering the Saharan desert. The group recently kidnapped tourists in Mali and held them for several months.
This week Musa Tanko, a spokesman claiming to speak for Boko Haram, bolstered those fears. “Islam does not recognise international boundaries. We will carry out our operations anywhere in the world if we have the chance”.
“For years Nigeria has been denying that it has a terrorist problem but it is nonsense,” it is said that “There are about 100,000 hardliners who have been to places like Sudan and Niger. The area is now a tinderbox.
Analysts say that the case of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who allegedly tried to blow up an American passenger aircraft with plastic explosives hidden in his underpants, has highlighted the ease with which Nigeria’s disenchanted youth can be radicalised…