what happen in ba gan is signature to the dispout.igeria has presidential and state- wide elections coming up in just a few weeks on valentine's day, february 14th. and so there is a incentive in the political constellation to lower the numbers and limit the damage done and others to raise it. and so there is a dispute. what is not disputed is the soilths imagery that was released including amnesty international showed 60 or 70 percent of the towns simply levelled. and the vegetation burned to the ground. and we have tens was thousands of refugees that poured over the border in neighboring countries and fled to other cities in nigeria. >> we showed that. it is devastating to look at. and you say what the united states needs to do is acknowledge that boko haram is a regional threat not only to africa but to us as well? >> nigeria is africa's largest economy and the most populs country and largest defense budget in africa and reeling from the attacks of boko haram unable to contain. if nigeria is that weakened by boko haram. the neighbo