from Jihad Watch:
Nigerian security agency says politicians supporting and funding Boko Haram
Feeding the crocodile, in hopes that it will eat them last? "Nigeria security says politicians sponsor Islamists," from Reuters, November 21:
ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigerian politicians are funding members of a radical Islamist sect responsible for dozens of shootings and bombings this year in the north and capital of Africa's most populous nation, the state security service (SSS) said on Monday. Boko Haram, whose name translates as "Western education is forbidden", has carried out near daily attacks in the remote northeast in Borno state, where Nigeria borders Cameroon, Niger and Chad.
Although parts of the sect say they want sharia law more widely applied across Nigeria and threaten international targets, most factions are focused on local issues and carry out politically motivated attacks.
Even the "politically motivated" attacks that appear in press reports show a connection to the desire for Islamic rule.
The SSS, Nigeria's intelligence agency, said in a press briefing that on November 3 they arrested Ali Sanda Umar Konduga who admitted to being one of the spokesmen for Boko Haram, using the name Usman al-Zawahiri.
"He was a former political thug operating under a group widely known as ECOMOG," said Marilyn Oga, an SSS spokeswoman.
ECOMOG was a militia group funded by politicians several years ago in Borno and some former members have now joined Boko Haram, diplomats and security experts have said.
"His arrest further confirms the Service position that some of the Boko Haram extremists have political patronage and sponsorship. This is more so as al-Zawahiri has so far made valuable confessions in this regard," Oga added.
The SSS said a politician in Borno recruited al-Zawahiri, who attended the press briefing, gave him a new name to portray him as an extremist and paid him to send threatening text messages to judges and rival politicians.
Al-Zawahiri is also the name of the leader of al Qaeda.
Borno state is one of the 13 out of 36 Nigerian states not governed by the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). Al-Zawahiri, speaking in the northern Hausa language and translated by SSS officials, named members of the PDP who he said paid him to disrupt the leadership of the state.
Posted by Marisol on November 22, 2011 12:01 AM
Nigerian security agency says politicians supporting and funding Boko Haram
Feeding the crocodile, in hopes that it will eat them last? "Nigeria security says politicians sponsor Islamists," from Reuters, November 21:
ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigerian politicians are funding members of a radical Islamist sect responsible for dozens of shootings and bombings this year in the north and capital of Africa's most populous nation, the state security service (SSS) said on Monday. Boko Haram, whose name translates as "Western education is forbidden", has carried out near daily attacks in the remote northeast in Borno state, where Nigeria borders Cameroon, Niger and Chad.
Although parts of the sect say they want sharia law more widely applied across Nigeria and threaten international targets, most factions are focused on local issues and carry out politically motivated attacks.
Even the "politically motivated" attacks that appear in press reports show a connection to the desire for Islamic rule.
The SSS, Nigeria's intelligence agency, said in a press briefing that on November 3 they arrested Ali Sanda Umar Konduga who admitted to being one of the spokesmen for Boko Haram, using the name Usman al-Zawahiri.
"He was a former political thug operating under a group widely known as ECOMOG," said Marilyn Oga, an SSS spokeswoman.
ECOMOG was a militia group funded by politicians several years ago in Borno and some former members have now joined Boko Haram, diplomats and security experts have said.
"His arrest further confirms the Service position that some of the Boko Haram extremists have political patronage and sponsorship. This is more so as al-Zawahiri has so far made valuable confessions in this regard," Oga added.
The SSS said a politician in Borno recruited al-Zawahiri, who attended the press briefing, gave him a new name to portray him as an extremist and paid him to send threatening text messages to judges and rival politicians.
Al-Zawahiri is also the name of the leader of al Qaeda.
Borno state is one of the 13 out of 36 Nigerian states not governed by the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). Al-Zawahiri, speaking in the northern Hausa language and translated by SSS officials, named members of the PDP who he said paid him to disrupt the leadership of the state.
Posted by Marisol on November 22, 2011 12:01 AM
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