[CSMONITOR] On March 14 fighting broke out in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, including at the Giwa Barracks -- the main military headquarters in Borno.
"Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
" claims it secured the release of two thousand detainees during the siege on the barracks. Abubakar Shekau has now released two new videos to claim responsibility for the attack.
Mr. Shekau, the successor to Mohammed Yusuf who was killed by the police in 2009, is a leader of "Boko Haram," the Islamist insurgency in northern Nigeria. As reports of the videos makes their way into the Nigerian press, they raise many questions.
The Daily Trust, a leading newspaper published in the north, reports that the attackers had camera men who captured the Giwa Barracks raid on film in great detail.
The video apparently shows no resistance from the Nigerian security forces, but it also notes some 500 dead bodies were found in the aftermath of the fighting, though no casualties are shown in the video itself.
Whether the dead were killed by the security services, Boko Haram, or by both is an open question. 
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