Boko Haram Upgrades, Acquires Weapons Of War

The AP is reporting that Boko Haram has significantly upgraded its arsenal. Read an excerpt from their latest report below.

Are we safe?
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At first, the Islamic extremist sect Boko Haram rode on the backs of motorcycles, firing on government officials and other perceived enemies with worn Kalashnikov assault rifles hidden beneath their flowing robes. Now, they come prepared for war.

When they drove into a town in northeast Nigeria on Tuesday, they used anti-aircraft guns, mounted on the backs of trucks, to destroy nearly every landmark of the nation’s federal government. Fighters also rode in on at least one bus, the military said, while in other assaults insurgents fired rocket-propelled grenades.

The heavy weapons helped them overrun the barracks of the Nigerian Army’s 202nd Battalion, as well as a police station, a police barracks, a magistrate’s court, local government offices and a federal prison.

Experts say that these arms were gotten when the fighters seized massive troves of Nigerian military equipment and received access to arms smuggled out of the lawlessness of Libya.

With the acquisition of these new weapons there is an obvious transformation of the sect and casualties are expected to rise.

It is therefore safe to say that those new arms, and the willingness of the sect to use them, highlight the increasing instability in Nigeria’s north and ever-growing dangers facing the nation’s weak central government.

They seem to be prepared for war while the government isn’t.




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