Nigeria needs serious
help from
countries with
competent
military and technology
power to
defeat our enemies as
latest revelations have
shown that the
violent sect, Boko
Haram and other groups
in northern
Nigeria received as
much as $3million from
Osama bin
Laden in 2002.
According to a report by
some United
States intelligence
analysts, Bin Laden was
said to have
dispatched an
aide to Nigeria to hand
out the seed
money in naira to a
wide array of Salafist
political
organisations that
shared
al Qaeda's goal of
imposing Islamic
rule.
"There were channels
between bin
laden and Boko
Haram leadership," one
senior U.S.
intelligence
official told The Daily
Beast, adding that
"He (Bin
Laden) gave some
strategic direction
at times."
According to a report in
a United
States-based
newspaper, The Daily
Beast, the Al-
Qaeda founder
helped in the process of
providing Boko
Haram's seed
money. Boko Haram was
founded by
Mohammed Yusuf in
2002. Yusuf was killed in
police custody
in 2009.
The Daily Beast reported
on Sunday
that officially, the
U.S. intelligence
community believed
that the sect had
only tangential links to
al Qaeda's
North African
affiliate, and that
reports of Bin Laden
backing the
Nigerian outfit were off-
base, but many
analysts have
believed that the ties
between Boko
Haram and al Qaeda
global leadership go
much deeper —
and are about more
than a little seed money.
A comprehensive report
on Boko
Haram published by the
International Crisis
Group, also
confirmed that Boko
Haram's early leader,
Mohammed
Yusuf, received money
from a disciple of
Osama bin Laden
named Mohammed
Ali in 2002.
The report added that
bin Laden got to
know Ali in the
1990s when he was
based in Sudan,
adding that after
Ali travelled with Bin
Laden to
Afghanistan, he was
provided with $3m in
Nigerian currency
in 2002 and
sent to the north of the
country to fund
al-Qaeda's
ideology.
The saga continues…
Title : THE MONEY OSAMA BIL GAVE BOKOHARAM, PLUS THE SECRET AGENDER
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help from
countries with
competent
military and technology
power to
defeat our enemies as
latest revelations ha...
