The head of Nigeria’s Boko Haram radicals has vowed support for the Sunni Islamic State extremists in Iraq and Syria and other Islamist groups in a new video, according to AFP. The group also claimed responsibility for the deadly June bombings in Nigeria.
In a new 16-minute video given to AFP, the Boko Haram extremists’ chief, Abubakar Shekau, voiced support for the militants of the Islamic State (IS) who are on a bloody rampage in Iraq and Syria.
Shekau also addressed prominent extremist groups Al-Qaeda and the Taliban.
"May Allah protect you," he said, calling the leaders of the groups his “brethren.”
In the video the leader said Boko Haram was responsible for the June 25 bombing in Nigeria’s capital Abuja where at least 21 people were killed and over 50 others were injured when a bomb went off in a shopping center.
"We were the ones who detonated the bomb in filthy Abuja," Shekau said.
The Boko Haram leader also said the group was responsible for the attack that occurred just hours before in the port city of Lagos.
"A bomb went off in Lagos. I ordered (the bomber) who went and detonated it,” he said.
Shekau also mocked the popular social media campaign ‘Bring Back Our Girls’, which brought international attention to the kidnapping of more than 200 school girls from the Chibok government secondary school by the Islamist radicals in April.
READ MORE
http://ift.tt/1qVHR4g
No comments:
Post a Comment