[IsraelTimes] Despite fears that linking of deadliest terror groups would bring imported muscle and arms into Lake Chad region, Nigerian jihadis seem to have weakened since move.
| Shekau’s declaration and the subsequent re-branding of Boko Haram as “Islamic State West Africa Province” or ISWAP caused a reported rift in the Boko Haram hierarchy. Dissenters have reportedly explored closer ties with other jihadi groups in the wider Sahel region. |
When Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
pledged allegiance to the Islamic State |