Boko Haram Releases New Video, Mocks Nigeria Military

Category: Boko Haram News


Boko Haram on Tuesday uploaded a 10- minutes video on Youtube, showing several militants with their faces covered with scarves, claiming that the Nigerian Islamic extremist group is still in control of their territory and that African coalition armies have not made meaningful advances in the days since President Buhari's inauguration.

The spokesman of the sect who is believed not to be Abubakar Shekau, swore in Allah's name that they were filming from Sambisa forest.


“I swear by Allah that I am talking right now from Sambisa. Here in Sambisa you can travel more than four to five hours under the black flag of Islam by car or by motorbike,” the spokesperson said.

The video has three parts: One in which a speaker claims control over Maiduguri in northeastern Nigeria and that Boko Haram is in possession of military ID cards of dead Nigerian soldiers, another with militants fighting in a field and shooting fallen soldiers, and a third with the militants inspecting what they claim is a downed jet.

The video follows a string of attacks since Friday that have left dozens dead in northeastern Nigeria. A suicide bombing Tuesday killed up to 20 people at a cattle market in Maiduguri, and 30 people were killed in fighting over the weekend, the Associated Press reported. Heavy gunfire and bombing were heard elsewhere in Maiduguri Tuesday.

The fighting in the video is graphic. Soldiers approach several men bleeding on the ground and shoot them in the head from behind. One man appears to be stabbed repeatedly in the neck. One man is seen hanging out the broken window of a minivan.

The video had on it the logo of "Islamic State in West Africa" ISWAP. Boko Haram had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group in March and is maintaining the style and format of its Middle Eastern ally.


At the end, a group of militants celebrate around what they say are the destroyed fragments of a jet. The man speaking challenges the presidents of Nigeria, Chad, Niger, Cameroon, the United States and France, and the prime minister of Israel, telling each, “here are your goods.”

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