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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,996 posts)
Fri May 21, 2021, 09:24 PM May 2021

Boko Haram leader behind kidnapping of 300 girls seriously injured after trying to blow himself up

The notorious leader of Islamist terror group Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, has been seriously injured, with some reporting he is dead after trying to blow himself up, according to intelligence sources.

Shekau, the man behind the Chibok schoolgirl kidnapping in 2014, tried to kill himself to avoid capture when a rival group supported by the Islamic State surrounded him on Wednesday, sources told AFP.

In a confidential briefing leaked to Nigerian media and seen by The Daily Telegraph, the country's intelligence services said: "Shekau detonated a bomb and killed himself when he observed that the ISWAP fighters wanted to capture him alive."

But an intelligence source told AFP Shekau had managed to escape with some men after the attack.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/boko-haram-leader-injured-possibly-081055072.html

Dumbass can't even get a suicide bombing right.

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Boko Haram leader behind kidnapping of 300 girls seriously injured after trying to blow himself up (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2021 OP
He's still alive? Well, I hope it hurts, after what he did to those girls. Hekate May 2021 #1
Actually Turbineguy May 2021 #2
I hope he was at least injured enough Raine May 2021 #3
POS deserves all the karma served up to him. Boomerproud May 2021 #4
So one crazy ass Islamic group is now fighting another? GulfCoast66 May 2021 #5
I always favored the policy of "Let's You and Him fight.." albacore May 2021 #6
Never think this is about religion. That's the fig leaf. GulfCoast66 May 2021 #8
All I can say is: EX500rider May 2021 #7
better luck next time...asshole... bahboo May 2021 #9
Best case scenario maxsolomon May 2021 #10

albacore

(2,399 posts)
6. I always favored the policy of "Let's You and Him fight.."
Fri May 21, 2021, 11:06 PM
May 2021

"Do you know what those guys called your mom?"
"Those guys say the Prophet is a pussy."
"Are you gonna take that shit from them?"

Shovel some propaganda and some bribes to them carefully, and...

GulfCoast66

(11,949 posts)
8. Never think this is about religion. That's the fig leaf.
Fri May 21, 2021, 11:11 PM
May 2021

Same as evangelicals loving trump. It is about power.

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