Boko Haram Release Video Of Abducted Girls Converting To Islam, Gives Conditions Of Release
A Boko Haram video emerged Monday purportedly showing some of the kidnapped
Nigerian girls in Muslim headdresses and the terror group’s leader declaring
they have converted to Islam.
The video released by French news agency, Agence France-Presse, was shot in
a nondescript area of a bush and showed about 100 girls.
In the 27-minute footage, the terror group’s leader,
Abubakar Shekau, says he’s willing to exchange the schoolgirls for Boko Haram
prisoners.
It shows girls dressed in black and gray hijabs and reciting the Quran as
they make Islamic declarations of faith. Shekau appears in a separate part
of the video, but never with the girls.
“Praise be to Allah, the lord of the world,” the girls chant in the
video.
It’s the first purported sighting of the girls abducted last month in the
northern town of Chibok. A convoy of Islamist militants drove to a school,
seized nearly 300 girls and fled into the night. At least 276 girls remain
missing since the terror group abducted them on April 14.
Source: CNN.com
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