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 2014 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.

That is your opinion.

NA has fought a good fight for us.

They succeeded in riding insurgency in Nigeria. We need to clear the remaining issue of terrorism.

God bless PMB

God bless NA

God bless us all- the lovers of good leadership.

Dansuki and his guys are d real boko haram




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veraponpo:

That is your opinion.

NA has fought a good fight for us.

They succeeded in riding insurgency in Nigeria. We need to clear the remaining issue of terrorism.

God bless PMB

God bless NA

God bless us all- the lovers of good leadership.

nigeria army are behind bokoharam in other to kill innocent civilian for their pay masters saudi,zionist usa & israhell

Op wat r u trying to say.....

conspiracy theorist !!

jamst2:


nigeria army are behind bokoharam in other to kill innocent civilian for their pay masters saudi,zionist usa & israhell

That's what people call me - a conspiracy theorist.

You have not included a source, which I am certain would show the piece was written about Army during the previous govt of GEJ.
I would be more inclined to agree with you if you referring to Jonathan's administration.

GenBuhari:
conspiracy theorist !!

That's what people call me - a conspiracy theorist.

You have not included a source, which I am certain would show the piece was written about Army during the previous govt of GEJ.
I would be more inclined to agree with you if you referring to Jonathan's administration.

Bokoharam is also a proxy warfare among the so-called world powers just like the biafra civil war,to get resourse control e.g oil,gold,diamond,uranium etc

100% agree on both Boko Haram and Biafra agitation being proxy warfare by America and European allies.

And for the reasons you stated.

jamst2:


Bokoharam is also a proxy warfare among the so-called world powers just like the biafra civil war,to get resourse control e.g oil,gold,diamond,uranium etc