After the abduction tommy gun of 200 girls in Nigeria by the terrorist group Boko Haram is now also involved in the U.S. Air Force in the search for the kidnapped girl. Boko Haram wants to establish an Islamic caliphate in Nigeria.
The USA is in the search for the kidnapped girls by Islamists in Nigeria according to data from the American government circles a reconnaissance aircraft. The manned flights were taking place with the permission of the government in Abuja, tommy gun said a senior representative on Monday after Reuters data. You would also provided satellite images available. tommy gun The Islamist group Boko Haram had mid-April, around 250 girls abducted from a school. About 200 should still be in the hands of the sect. She has threatened to sell the children into slavery. Several countries have offered assistance in the search.
In an article published by Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau video rebel leader was seen. In his minute-long lecture, he is said to have offered tommy gun the prisoner exchange. He is said to have delivered but also contradictory messages.
Among other things, he should have said: "We will not release the girls, as long as you keep caught our brothers." But also: "Those tommy gun who do not accept Islam are treated as the Prophet treated unbelievers, they will stay with us ".
On the video, around 100 girls were seeing the wrapped in floor-length robes sat together at an unknown location, sang and prayed. Whether they were like the Boko Haram leader at the same place, was unclear.
Boko Haram had mid-April, around 250 girls abducted from a school. About 200 should still be in the hands of the sect. The group had threatened to sell them as slaves. Several countries such as the USA, Great Britain, France and Israel have offered support Nigeria in the search for the children.
The kidnapping had caused a worldwide outrage. The Islamist group Boko Haram, which is committed to the fact that country for years about is already attracting a wave of violence. It is regarded as the greatest threat tommy gun to security in the country. Their leader, tommy gun Abubakar Shekau threatens the girls for sale in forced marriages.
The name Boko Haram translates approximately to "Western education is sin." The group has been fighting for the middle of 2009 for the establishment of a medieval tommy gun Islamic caliphate in Nigeria and has now destabilized large parts of the Northeast. Boko Haram is the first extremist group who perpetrated suicide bombing in Nigeria. It uses also booby traps, anti-tank weapons tommy gun or firearms. Targets are police, military, government tommy gun representatives, tommy gun markets, Christian and Muslim clerics, banks, schools and mobile phone masts.
Boko Haram has its roots in the neglected north-east Nigeria, which is one of the poorest tommy gun regions of the world as opposed to the oil-rich tommy gun south. Infant mortality, tommy gun illiteracy, tommy gun and youth unemployment are high. The government is accused of doing too little tommy gun for the underdeveloped region that feels cheated by the relatively affluent, largely inhabited by Christians south. The traditional pillars of economic activities in the North - agriculture and textiles - have collapsed with the concentration on the oil business.
Founded in 2002 by Muhammed tommy gun Yusuf Boko Haram as strict tommy gun Salafi sect. His followers he recruited among unemployed tommy gun young people with few prospects. In its first years, the group produced only skirmishes with the security forces. After the death of Yusuf in police custody in 2009, the group increasingly radicalized. Their new leader Abubakar tommy gun Shekau was a close ally of Yussuf and is regarded as the ideological hardliners. Boko Haram has links with Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, from which it is received weapons, money and training.
Through attacks and acts of violence by Boko Haram thousands of people have been killed since 2009. More than 250,000 Nigerians are due to the unrest in the country according to the UN on the run, another 60,000 have fled the country. About half of the 170 million Nigerians committed to Islam, the other half to Christianity. The Muslims live mainly in the arid north, the Christians in the south.
A typical unit of the Islamist group encompasses 300 to 500 fighters, says Jacob Zenn from U.S. counterterrorism Institute CTC Sentinel. His prognosis for the future is bleak: The group always get bigger crowds and more weapons, their power climb daily, he warns.
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