Boko Haram May Release Some Schoolgirls, But Warns of Networks in America

in News / by Dom the Conservative / on May 22, 2014 at 9:22 am /

Boko Haram may have given up demands of a prisoner exchange, instead considering gradually releasing up to half of the 200 kidnapped schoolgirls in the next few days.
Perhaps seeing their prisoner exchange as impossible to negotiate with the Nigerian government, a cleric in Boko Haram has confirmed that they are considering letting the girls go.
The Telegraph reported:
The Telegraph first reported details of Boko Haram’s offer of an imminent prisoner exchange last Tuesday, when sources close to to some of the militants’ families said that a senior Islamic cleric from northern Nigeria would be appointed to mediate on its behalf with the government.
The cleric has since been joined by a former aide to one of the group’s founders.
“Contrary to the public rejection of any swap deal by the Nigerian government, there are some on-the-ground talks taking place,” the source said. “An agreement was reached about two or three days ago in principle to start releasing some prisoners.”
CBS recently interviewed a 7-year member of Boko Haram called Selah Abubakar:
“We go to their school and attack some of soldiers and policemen,” he said.
But when asked why his group decided to target schoolgirls, Abubakar abruptly ended the interview, asking for a safer, indoor location.
He told CBS News he’d seen the girls three weeks ago, and they were being well cared for.
“Some of them will complain of headache; we have medicine,” he said, when asked if any of the girls were sick. “We have everything in the place where we keep them.”
Asked if any had been sold into marriage, he replied, “We do not marry them.”
He said the girls had converted to Islam — willingly, he claimed. As a result, they’d been spared being sold into slavery, as the group’s leader had threatened.
When pressed on whether abducting the girls and forcing them to convert to Islam is the same as forcing them, he said, “As I tell you, we are not forcing anyone to accept Islam. We are just preaching to them.”
Asked whether the girls will be killed if the government does not release the prisoners, he replied, “I will not tell you what we are going to do.”
Abubakar warned that Boko Haram intends to kidnap more school girls and continue to wreak havoc, slaughtering civilians.
He also claimed that the group has networks all around the world, including America.

http://madworldnews.com/boko-haram-m...works-america/