{"id":4396,"date":"2013-05-29T05:27:53","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T05:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigeria-news\/nigerias-boko-haram-claims-victories-over-military\/"},"modified":"2013-05-29T05:27:53","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T05:27:53","slug":"nigerias-boko-haram-claims-victories-over-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigerias-boko-haram-claims-victories-over-military\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria\u2019s Boko Haram Claims Victories Over Military"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Abubakar Shekau, the leader of Nigeria’s Boko Haram said his group has scored several victories against the military during an ongoing offensive while themselves sustaining little damage, in a video seen by AFP on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

“Since we started this ongoing war which they call state of emergency … in some instances soldiers who faced us turned and ran,” Abubakar Shekau said in the hour-long video.
He claimed Nigerian forces “threw down their arms in flight.”<\/p>\n

He called on like-minded Islamists in countries including Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq to join the fight to create an Islamic state in Nigeria.
“We call to us our brethren in these countries I mentioned. Oh! Our brethren, come to us,” he said in the video, which alternates between Arabic and the Hausa language spoken across northern Nigeria.<\/p>\n

Nigeria launched an offensive against Boko Haram on May 15, after President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency in the country’s northeast, the Islamist insurgents’ stronghold.<\/p>\n

The video was delivered to AFP though an intermediary in a manner similar to previous Boko Haram messages. The images of Shekau in the video are consistent with those previously released.<\/p>\n

The Boko Haram leader was designated a global terrorist by the United States last year.<\/p>\n

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