Eye on terrorism: Al Qaeda-Linked Islamist Threat Grows In Nigeria

In the past two years, Boko Haram has met and trained with Qaeda affiliates outside the country, American and Nigerian officials and analysts say.

Nigerian-born Mutallab training at Al Qaeda camp; making threats

Ahmadiyya Times | News Watch | US Desk
Source/Credit: The New York Times
By Adam Nossiter | August 17, 2011

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria -- A shadowy Islamist insurgency that has haunted northern Nigeria -- surviving repeated, bloody efforts to eliminate it -- appears to be branching out and collaborating with Al Qaeda's affiliates, alarming Western officials and analysts who had previously viewed the militants here as a largely isolated, if deadly, menace.

Just two years ago, the Islamist group stalking police officers in this bustling city seemed on the verge of extinction. In a heavy-handed assault, Nigerian soldiers shelled its headquarters and killed its leader, leaving a grisly tableau of charred ruins, hundreds dead and outmatched members of the group, known as Boko Haram, struggling to fight back, sometimes with little more than bows and arrows. [Read more here]


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