[FOXNEWS] The Islamic State...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
’s decision to oust the leader of 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...
-- who had a penchant for using children as jacket wallahs ‐ is fracturing the Nigerian terror group as bloodthirsty holy warriors are divided amid a new push to attack Christian communities.
And you thought it was impossible to make ISIS gag!
The self-proclaimed caliphate announced in August that Musab al-Barnawi will be the Nigerian group’s new "governor" after Abubakar Shekau
... the lunatic leader of Boko Haram who has been reported dead at least eleven times, pledged his body and soul to ISIS, told his fighters to hang it up once or twice, and been fire by the Caliph and refused to step down ...
, its notorious former leader, apparently became too much for ISIS leadership in the Middle East, The Wall Street Journal reports.
Barnawi, rumored to be a son of the group’s founder, reportedly told ISIS’ newspaper that jihadists should shift their focus to Nigeria’s Christians, in a bid to win over public support after Shekau spent years attacking Moslem villages that didn’t join Boko Haram’s ranks.
The group, an ISIS affiliate, should be "booby-trapping and blowing up every church that we are able to reach, and killing all those we find from the citizens of the cross," Barnawi told the newspaper, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Such a move could exploit existing tensions in Nigerian communities with split Moslem and Christian populations, the newspaper added.
Under Shekau ‐ who took control of the group in 2009 ‐ Moslem civilians became the majority of the casualties in the violence, with holy warriors frequently enlisting children to carry out suicide kabooms.
"You can’t really be more barbaric and more savage than Shekau," Issoufou Yahaya, a political analyst and head of the history department at the Niamey University in Niger, told The Wall Street Journal. "He’s the pinnacle of barbarism."
But Shekau has not recognized Barnawi’s appointment, accusing him of apostasy and saying that ISIS’ leader, His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us...
, has been duped.
The two factions have been clashing as a result, accusing each other of abandoning their faith, The Wall Street Journal reported.
A new Boko Haram video released this week that declared allegiance to Shekau vowed to kill Nigeria’s president and army chief, according to The News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
New Boko Haram Video Threatens to Kill Nigeria's President
[ABCNEWS.GO] A new video by Boko Haram threatens to kill Nigeria's president and army chief and warns of further destruction, though the Islamic Death Eaters have not mounted a major attack in Nigeria in months.
A preacher in the video says Boko Haram is "even stronger now" and "will destroy what we never destroyed before," according to a translation from the Hausa by Premium Times newspaper.
The video posted on YouTube on Wednesday says it was shot Monday in Nigeria's northeastern Sambisa Forest at prayers marking Eid al-Adha festival. It shows scores of worshipping men, many armed, in a mosque and at an outdoor ceremony.
Army discovers Boko Haram conspiracy
[NEWS24.NG] The Nigerian Army claim to have uncovered a conspiracy in the latest Boko Haram video, saying that the images in the video showing thousands of Lions of Islam observing prayers during Eid celebrations as being photo-shopped, Naij reports.
The Army said in a statement that it sought to ease Nigerians who were apprehensive over the video, describing the act as a last resort to the few remaining Boko haram members to remain relevant.
"This has cast aspersion to the credibility of the clip and therefore should be disregarded. The Nigerian military is highly committed to making lives unbearable to the enemies of this nation wherever they are and would do all that is required within its rules of engagement to ensure that no part of Nigerian territory is conducive and habitable for forces of Evil and any other criminals to stay and operate," the statement read.
It also urged Nigerians not to bother over the antics of the sect as their end was imminent.
News24 reported that the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant-General Tukur Buratai, addressed top US defence officials and policy leaders on the efforts made by the military in the fight against insurgency in the North-East.
Buratai emphasised the fact that the fight against terrorism was one that concerned the entire global community and not only the countries.