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Nigerian Military: "The Real Boko Haram"
Submitted by Glen Ford on Wed, 12/16/2015 - 10:46
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford
When the United States and Saudi Arabia partnered to spread global jihadist
terror, they set the stage for massacres throughout Asia and Africa. The
latest atrocity has claimed as many as a thousand Shia Muslim lives in
Nigeria, a nation that has joined Saudi Arabia's bizarre coalition against
terror. "For the Saudis to be leading a war against terror is like the Pope
leading a war against Catholicism."
Nigerian Military: "The Real Boko Haram"
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford
"The Nigerian military has long been suspected of manipulating Boko Haram to
its own ends."
Hammad Ibrahim, a soft-spoken, intelligent young man, accompanied his
father, Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky, the leader of Nigeria's Shia Muslims, to a
conference on Solidarity with Palestine, in Beirut, last week. I was there,
along with other reporters and activists. Young Hammad told our group that
Boko Haram, the Nigerian jihadists, are terrorist thugs who get their
weapons and money from both Nigerian and foreign donors, just like the
Islamic State, with which Boko Haram is aligned. Hammad's father, Sheikh
Zakzaky, is recognized as a force for reconciliation among the various
religious and ethnic groups in Nigeria. But Zakzaky's Shia followers have
been targeted by both Boko Haram and the Nigerian military, which has long
been suspected of manipulating Boko Haram to its own ends. The Nigerian army
killed three of the Sheikh's sons in 2009 during a march against the Israeli
occupation of Jerusalem.
By this weekend, Hammad was also dead, killed by the Nigerian military
shortly after he arrived back in the country in a massacre of unarmed Shia
Muslims that left his father with bullet wounds in both hands. The military
claims the Sheikh's followers were plotting to kill the army chief of staff
when his motorcade was blocked by demonstrators. But, it was pure murder on
a massive scale, with as many as 1,000 dead and two hundred bodies piled up
at a morgue on the outskirts of town. The military then bulldozed a Shia
shrine and Sheikh Zakzaky's home. One of the Sheikh's followers, Bukhari
Muhammed Bello Jega, wrote on his Facebook page that "the REAL BOKO HARAM is
now on the loose" in form of the Nigerian army, "bombing buildings and
killing innocent civilians." Soon after posting that message, Mr. Bello Jega
was also killed by soldiers, along with his wife and infant child.
"It was pure murder on a massive scale, with as many as 1,000 dead."
It is not strange at all that the Nigerian military, which for years did
little to halt the rise of Boko Haram terror, has unleashed a hell on earth
for peaceful Shia Muslims. Saudi Arabia, the fountainhead of funding for
jihadists all over the world, has just formed its own bizarre coalition
against terror, made up of 34 nations from Pakistan to sub-Saharan Africa,
including Nigeria and its West African neighbors Chad, Togo, Senegal, Sierra
Leone, Gabon, Guinea, and the Ivory Coast. For the Saudis to be leading a
war against terror is like the Pope leading a war against Catholicism.
Everything the Saudis touch turns into terror and chaos. The Saudi brand of
Wahhabist Islam calls for the eradication of Shia Muslims and secular
governments, worldwide - a crusade that the United States finds convenient
to its own imperial purposes. When both Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton
say that Arabs and Muslims must fight their own war against terror, they are
actually endorsing Saudi Arabia's leadership of the Muslim world and the
spread of proxy jihadist armies throughout Africa and Asia.
West Africa is the next front in these jihadist wars, which have already
claimed so many of Sheikh Zakzaky's sons. The resulting chaos will be used
to justify further U.S military penetration of the African continent, under
the pretext of putting out the fires that they themselves have set.
For Black Agenda Radio, I'm Glen Ford. On the web, go to
BlackAgendaReport.com.
BAR executive editor Glen Ford can be contacted at
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. A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford
. When the United States and Saudi Arabia partnered to spread global
jihadist terror, they set the stage for massacres throughout Asia and
Africa. The latest atrocity has claimed as many as a thousand Shia Muslim
lives in Nigeria, a nation that has joined Saudi Arabia's bizarre coalition
against terror. "For the Saudis to be leading a war against terror is like
the Pope leading a war against Catholicism."
Nigerian Military: "The Real Boko Haram"
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford
"The Nigerian military has long been suspected of manipulating Boko Haram to
its own ends."
Hammad Ibrahim, a soft-spoken, intelligent young man, accompanied his
father, Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky, the leader of Nigeria's Shia Muslims, to a
conference on Solidarity with Palestine, in Beirut, last week. I was there,
along with other reporters and activists. Young Hammad told our group that
Boko Haram, the Nigerian jihadists, are terrorist thugs who get their
weapons and money from both Nigerian and foreign donors, just like the
Islamic State, with which Boko Haram is aligned. Hammad's father, Sheikh
Zakzaky, is recognized as a force for reconciliation among the various
religious and ethnic groups in Nigeria. But Zakzaky's Shia followers have
been targeted by both Boko Haram and the Nigerian military, which has long
been suspected of manipulating Boko Haram to its own ends. The Nigerian army
killed three of the Sheikh's sons in 2009 during a march against the Israeli
occupation of Jerusalem.
By this weekend, Hammad was also dead, killed by the Nigerian military
shortly after he arrived back in the country in a massacre of unarmed Shia
Muslims that left his father with bullet wounds in both hands. The military
claims the Sheikh's followers were plotting to kill the army chief of staff
when his motorcade was blocked by demonstrators. But, it was pure murder on
a massive scale, with as many as 1,000 dead and two hundred bodies piled up
at a morgue on the outskirts of town. The military then bulldozed a Shia
shrine and Sheikh Zakzaky's home. One of the Sheikh's followers, Bukhari
Muhammed Bello Jega, wrote on his Facebook page that "the REAL BOKO HARAM is
now on the loose" in form of the Nigerian army, "bombing buildings and
killing innocent civilians." Soon after posting that message, Mr. Bello Jega
was also killed by soldiers, along with his wife and infant child.
"It was pure murder on a massive scale, with as many as 1,000 dead."
It is not strange at all that the Nigerian military, which for years did
little to halt the rise of Boko Haram terror, has unleashed a hell on earth
for peaceful Shia Muslims. Saudi Arabia, the fountainhead of funding for
jihadists all over the world, has just formed its own bizarre coalition
against terror, made up of 34 nations from Pakistan to sub-Saharan Africa,
including Nigeria and its West African neighbors Chad, Togo, Senegal, Sierra
Leone, Gabon, Guinea, and the Ivory Coast. For the Saudis to be leading a
war against terror is like the Pope leading a war against Catholicism.
Everything the Saudis touch turns into terror and chaos. The Saudi brand of
Wahhabist Islam calls for the eradication of Shia Muslims and secular
governments, worldwide - a crusade that the United States finds convenient
to its own imperial purposes. When both Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton
say that Arabs and Muslims must fight their own war against terror, they are
actually endorsing Saudi Arabia's leadership of the Muslim world and the
spread of proxy jihadist armies throughout Africa and Asia.
West Africa is the next front in these jihadist wars, which have already
claimed so many of Sheikh Zakzaky's sons. The resulting chaos will be used
to justify further U.S military penetration of the African continent, under
the pretext of putting out the fires that they themselves have set.
For Black Agenda Radio, I'm Glen Ford. On the web, go to
BlackAgendaReport.com.
BAR executive editor Glen Ford can be contacted at
mailto:Glen.Ford@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
