Nigerian Muslim Leader Supports School Massacre

AFP
July 13, 2013

Abubakar Shekau, leader of the Muslim group Boko Haram.
Abubakar Shekau, leader of the Muslim group Boko Haram.

The head of Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamists said he supported a July 6 attack on a school that killed 42 people, but did not claim responsibility for the massacre, in a video obtained by AFP Saturday.

“We fully support the attack on this Western education school in Mamudo,” in northern Yobe state, Abubakar Shekau said in the 10-minute video message.

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