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The US State Department has added the Nigerian jihadist group Boko Haram and its splinter faction known as Ansaru to the lists of Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorist entities. The designations took place almost one and a half years after Boko Haram's leader was added to the list of specially designated global terrorists.
Announcing today's designations, State described Boko Haram as "a Nigeria-based militant group with links to al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) that is responsible for thousands of deaths in northeast and central Nigeria over the last several years including targeted killings of civilians."
Ansaru, also known as Ansar al-Muslimeen in the Land of Black Africans (Bilad al-Sudan), is described as "a Boko Haram splinter faction" that has "focused on Nigerian military and Western targets."
Source: Long War Journal
see more at http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2013/11/us_adds_boko_haram_t_1.php
Announcing today's designations, State described Boko Haram as "a Nigeria-based militant group with links to al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) that is responsible for thousands of deaths in northeast and central Nigeria over the last several years including targeted killings of civilians."
Ansaru, also known as Ansar al-Muslimeen in the Land of Black Africans (Bilad al-Sudan), is described as "a Boko Haram splinter faction" that has "focused on Nigerian military and Western targets."
Source: Long War Journal
see more at http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2013/11/us_adds_boko_haram_t_1.php
