Why Nigeria Cannot Defeat The Islamist Militant Group Boko Haram

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5RREpcfC5lzADeizZfjopI1UTaeu6STDwH128A90JWqj-7IprQQapqg12VJ3FJsWty4pQAnGGpsOuUtwO66pFb9Lbam1wbQrCrvPxt5HxyOOfQO6I1w37asDfhJ_qsML7CyHO3W_N_dI9/s1600/2013-09-12-BZSSR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="140" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5RREpcfC5lzADeizZfjopI1UTaeu6STDwH128A90JWqj-7IprQQapqg12VJ3FJsWty4pQAnGGpsOuUtwO66pFb9Lbam1wbQrCrvPxt5HxyOOfQO6I1w37asDfhJ_qsML7CyHO3W_N_dI9/s1600/2013-09-12-BZSSR.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Nigeria Islamists Better Armed, Motivated Than Army: Governor -- Reuters</b></span></div><br />(Reuters) - Islamist militant group Boko Haram is better armed than the Nigerian military force fighting it, the governor of the region worst hit by the insurgency said on Friday after more than 100 people died in a village raid.<br /><br />President Goodluck Jonathan ordered extra troops into northeast Nigeria in May to crush Boko Haram, which wants to create an Islamic state in the largely Muslim north. The military denied it was less well armed than the insurgents.<br /><br />"Boko Haram are better armed and are better motivated than our own troops," Borno state Governor Kashim Shettima told journalists at the presidential villa after a meeting with President Jonathan.<br /><br /><b><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/17/us-nigeria-violence-idUSBREA1G1AO20140217">Read more</a></b> ....<br /><br /><b>My Comment:</b> A rare admission from a senior Nigerian official. In the meantime .... the <b><a href="http://warnewsupdates.blogspot.ca/2014/02/nigerias-boko-haram-militants-attack.html">slaughter continues</a></b>.

Why Nigeria Cannot Defeat The Islamist Militant Group Boko Haram

Nigeria Islamists Better Armed, Motivated Than Army: Governor -- Reuters (Reuters) - Islamist militant group Boko Haram is better armed than...

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