boko haram has a lot of weapons. are they mostly captured from the nigerian military, purchased or we don't know? >> i could give slightly more than one word. it's a mixture in our understanding. they have resources as a result of kidnapping for ransom operations so they're able to purchase to include -- >> are the weapons that we've seen them use or captured from their caches or stores the same weapons found in nigerian military arsenals? >> some of them are also captured from nigerian security services or raids against arsenals so it's a mix. >> dr. sewall, mr. maman nur is a high ranking member of boem ha boko haram. he may be a link between certain affiliates like al shabaab, may have been behind the 2011 u.n. bombing. should we be designating this individual as a specially designated global terrorist? >> i don't know the answer off the top and i'll have to look into that and get back to you. i simply can't answer it right now, i apologize. >> there are lots of reports in the press that the nigerian military knew

and in confronting boko haram.implications of those growing threat and what action can and should be taken by cameroon, chad and niger to ensure the schoolgirls are not taken across borders and to minimize the growing regional threat. i'd like to invite an opening statement by my ranking member flake and then senator menendez. >> i appreciate the witnesses coming forward. look forward to their testimony. i won't take any time here. just to say i agree with the chairman's comments. we want to know what the u.s. government is doing, what -- what the nigerians have asked for. whether we can help them or not in this regard. i look forward to the testimony. thank you for calling the hearing. >> thank you, senator. i greatly appreciate your cooperation and real partnership in working on this subcommittee. to the full committee chairman, senator menendez. >> thank you, mr. chairman. as i sit here in your chair i get the blue hand vibrations coming from delaware. so i appreciate your leadership and senator flake's on the a

what is boko haram and how long has it been active. >> boko haram has formed in 1972. the north is very poor, and a group of muslim youth banded together to create jobs to help certain government officials' goals so they received money. they played vigilanty roles, which is very common. but in 2009, this group had worked hand in glove with local authorities for a while had an argument with authorities that had been building for a long time. and the leader was arrested. while he was in police custody he was executed illegally. the perpetrators, the police perpetrators of that murder posted the video online. that had two effects. one, it outraged a lot of people in the north, especially the followers of boko haram. and two, it put the radicals second in command in charge of the group and they came back in campaign against the authorities. that gave birth to the boko hara today. >> if you trace the rise of boko haram does it come out of a similar time and similar seed bed as al-shabaab. >> absolutely there are common elements. each of those groups came out of a very speci

boko haram. finally, we will consider the regional implications of those growing threat and what action can and should be taken by cameroon, chad and niger to ensure the schoolgirls are not taken across borders and to minimize the growing regional threat. i'd like to invite an opening statement by my ranking member flake and then senator menendez. >> i appreciate the witnesses coming forward. look forward to their testimony. i won't take any time here. just to say i agree with the chairman's comments. we want to know what the u.s. government is doing, what -- what the nigerians have asked for. whether we can help them or not in this regard. i look forward to the testimony. thank you for calling the hearing. >> thank you, senator. i greatly appreciate your cooperation and real partnership in working on this subcommittee. to the full committee chairman, senator menendez. >> thank you, mr. chairman. as i sit here in your chair i get the blue hand vibrations coming from delaware. so i appreciate your

after boko haram killed -- underscored why boko haram is a regional challenge and while the kidnapping and has cast a spotlight on this terrorist organization i want to emphasize for roughly a decade united states has been working to help the people of nigeria and the nigerian government address this terrorist threat. today i'd like to highlight some of the kinds of security systems we have more recently helping nigeria. fiscal years 2012/2013 the department of state plan $35.8 million in security assistance programs that benefit nigeria such approval. we are working with police and civilian security components to build nigerian law enforcement capacities to investigate terrorist cases effectively deal with explosive devices and secure nigeria's orders. we do this because the most effective counterterrorism practices are those that respect human rights and are underpinned by the rule of law. we are also focusing on enabling various nigerian services including the police intelligence agencies and the ministry of defense refusing multiple information streams to develop a better understan

whatve to call boko haram it is. this is mostly a criminal organization that is usually -- using islam to promote whatever their agenda is. there are criminal divisions of christians. orody ever went after them when after christianity because of militants. i'm not saying it is equivalent to boko haram. this is criminal activity. it's just the way it is, it is a global trend right now that is controlled by global powers. we must continue to defend the argument that this is not about islam or christianity. we are talking about fringe elements who are using all of these groups to do what they want to do. it your sense that the longer this goes on, the less the chances are that these girls will be returned? i think about the plane that went down somewhere, and everybody knew that if we didn't find this thing, sooner or later that black box would stop beeping and increase the risk that plane would never be found, and were still trying to find this plane. i wonder if you think the longer this goes on, does the risk decreas

this whole for the of nigeria is boko haram territory. to get around it, you need fire power, lots of it. we had 40 official vehicles packed with armed men to guard us. we're going with the local governor heading to the scene of one of the worst attacks here. it happened last week. it was scarcely reported even within nigeria. this is hostile territory. the road we're driving on would normally be very busy. it's almost empty because no one wants to drive alone here after the boko haram attacks. we've been passing villages desserted because people are scared of boko haram. after a couple of hour, we reached the town. the bridge outside it had been blown up last wednesday. two days earlier, it was hit by an army of boko haram men. their arrived at 1:30 in the afternoon. we counted hundreds of burned out cars. boko haram didn't want anyone following them afterwards. they massacred 375 people. again almost unnoticed in outside world. the town center was destroyed. the scale of destruction here is quite extraordinary. i hadn't expected this. r

boko haram had retreated from the capital. where the military was in gauging them to the rural areas, and they were killing people in their homes. this mass operation and displacement has been going on for almost a year. but what is particularly disturbing is that last week while we were in cameroon, boko haram struck a village. they killed close to 300 people. then there was population displacement. 3000 people fled again across the border. we have this going on for a year. you begin to wonder, where is the humanitarian response to this crisis? let me mention two things that concern me. one of them is the u.s. -- u.n. refugee camp. we visited. we noticed that they were distributing grains to the people who had fled there from nigeria. when we interviewed them, they say to us, this is the first time that we have been given food in 49 days. this is the people at the official u.n. camp. they have not been fed for the 49 days. there are other unofficial cabs. you can only imagine how bad the conditions are there. there is an inef

this week boko haram surfaced again. their fighters are blamed for a massacre that left hundreds dead. the attack unfolded under 12 hours at a village in the state of borno. ynonne ndedge is in a village with the story. >> reporter: this is the carnage caused by the nige ear jan group boko haram from attacks in the north-east. reports that they killed hundreds in gamboru, and borno on monday will worry many. residents say that masked men raided the village and started firing. >> anyone sighted in that area were shot and killed. later they moved to the city, and they went down the shops. 500 vehicles were burnt. according to the residents, they told me not less than 300 people died. >> the reports may fuel public anger among concerned nigerians, about the federal government's failure to kerb attacks by the group. the nigerians marched to the officers of the head of the army on tuesday, the capital abuja, to protest the failure. the united states implied that nigea was offered help but rejected it. >> nigeria's minister sa

it could be in the forest where boko haram has camps there.the governor believes they are held in nigeria. >> many thanks for that. we're going to cross to john also in the area on the phone. what can you tell us about the release of this video? >> reporter: well it happened half an hour ago, 45 minutes ago. it shows -- no doubt you've been describing to view ers what it shows. it seems to be genuine and follows the past boko haram pattern of videos and release. the interesting thing i think about it, it's -- i'm in the capital of the state where the school actually is. this is are almost like a kind of besieged town. boko haram has a lot of scope all around it in much of the state. so we haven't been able to see the video at all yet. >> just to let you know. we're just showing the video pictures now. >> you're better off than i am. the key thing in it is what boko haram leader is saying is that these girls presumably all girls will not be released until all the prison pers held by the government forces have been released. although that sounds

to boko haram? >> well, one of the things on the ground now, i think that the options of the government are quite limited. there are two broad options, one is to use military force. this has a lot of disadvantages because these girls are still in the hands of the boko haram militants, and they are being used, not only by chiefs, but also as human shields. so it's hard to conduct any military rescue operation without endangering the lives of these girls. and i think it's in the interest of these girls and their families, should be the priority in any rescue operation, secondly, talking about negotiating with boko haram, in the video released on monday by the leader of the boko haram, he is demanding for the government to release the members of the boko haram sect that have been detained by the nigerian government. and in exchange they are going to release the girls. this sounds outrageous, and many nigerians in this insurgency think that nigeria should not negotiate with them. but at the same time, t

why are they unable to defeat boko haram?ere is some question as to how serious they have been about doing it. at first, very complacent in the early years. then going and very heavy-handed, which alienated many communities from sharing intelligence. it is not a delicate counterinsurgency operation, just kind of a brutal crackdown. in u.s. has learned afghanistan and iraq it is not that easy when fighters are able to meld into civilian populations and recruit because of hard handed military tactics. >> thank you for joining us. following the highly contentious referendum, two regions of ukraine have asked to join the russian federation. one separatist leader called on russia to absorb the eastern -- donetskfrance 24" . the u.s. and the european union have both declared the referendum illegal. our correspondent, daniel centric, reports. >> fireworks at the headquarters of the rebels as they celebrate a day they hope will take them out of ukraine. less than 24 hours after the controversy over for self-rule, the leadership decla

boko haram was about to attack this school. >> they were out-gunned and by the number of boko haram fighters who attacked the town and they had to flee for their lives together with some other villagers who fled to the bush. and that is a shocking revelation. we have been repeatedly calling on the nigerian authorities to provide adequate security for people of nigeria. and especially for schools because these schools have become vulnerable targets in the past couple of years. >> reporter: the you nierch government's response have -- the nigerian government's response last led to proses across the country. president goodluck jonathan admits he doesn't know where they are. specialists are in nigeria to help with the search. the nigerian government says it will investigate claims the military ignored warnings of an attack. if the claims are substantiated, it may continue the outrage. ee scroyvonne ndege, al jazeera. >> in crimea today a celebratory visit from russian president vladimir putin touring the region for the first time since it became part of his country. nadi manufacturdim b

but who are boko haram? militant islamist group has attacked schools, christian churches, and state institutions. they want to overthrow the government and set up an islamic state based on strict sharia law. >> boko haram, at the beginning, the effort was met, but they the vision, the government will use force and 11 a boko haram, but that has not worked. >> boko haram was founded in 2010. violence broke out between the group and security forces. the groups original leader, mohammed yousef, was captured. he died in police custody. under a new leader, the group attacks became increasingly odd basis. experts believe the group as connections to al qaeda and may receive funding and weapons from the group. boko haram has released videos showing off its arsenal. some citigroup is now better armed than the nigerian military. establishedm has itself primarily in the mainly north nigeria. it is the country's poorest area, one of the poorest in the with high levels of unemployment, infant mortality, and illiteracy. ma

some say the kid naption never took place. >> we are boko haram. >> boko haram, the ruthless radical group accused of kidnapping hundreds of school girls in nigeria. and the world outraged. >> one of the worst local or regional terrorist organization he. >> many refused to speak the name out loud. in nigeria, rich in oil, this violence threatens to disrupt the global economy. what do they want? how can they be stopped? >> not enough is being done to rescue our daughters. >> our special report, what you don't know about boko haram. >> i'm john siegenthaler in new york. boko haram, loosely translated, the words mean western education is sinful. it is a heavily armed men who routinely target western-style schools. members say they want an islamic state, ruled by islamic law. their methods of cruel and vicious, already killing hundreds this year. boko haram is blamed with killing nearly 300 nigerians. and after 276 girls were kidnapped april 14th. the u.s. sent experts into nigeria to help find them and today nigeria's police offered $300,000 for any credible evidence to their rescue. af

boko haram lives up to its name . they have killed, as i say, over 100 teachers, but over 500 students. they've denied tens of thousands of young nigerians an education, but they have a very alternative framework for education or indoctrineation that they intend to supplant. and despite knowing the dangers, these young women were committed to their education, the ones that were abducted. this resolution importantly puts the house on record saying , we are committed to getting them freed. the resolution supports u.s. assistance to the nigerian government in trying to rescue these girls and calls for a more active u.s. role. tomorrow we will hear from a young woman who herself was idnapped by boko haram and escaped. but it is clear that the nigerian security forces are facing an uphill battle in the fight against boko haram. some of these problems are internal, some unprofessional and corrupt units that are poorly equipped, poorly trained. and that's led some to say that we should not be involved. but, mr. speaker, it t

they are very determined to deal with the situation to wage total war on boko haram. >> boko haram is no longer a group started in 2002 and 2009. it has changed and is an al-qaeda organization. it's better described as a al-qaeda group. >> william hague is those in harris and said the u.k. is willing to help fight boko haram. >> nigerian security forces have not been well-structured for this kind of thing shown by the problem getting worse with boko haram. so we can help with that. >> is why we are offering to imbed military advisors with the nigerian headquarters. we work with nigeria in many other ways on counterterrorism. >> reporter: we have correspondents standing buy in paris where that conference is being held and in nigeria's capitol. let's go to tim friend in the french capitol. tim, a lot of talk about the threat of boko haram, but have we seen anything like an action plan to combat it? >> reporter: well, i think one is slowly but very slowly emerging. they've got a huge and very difficult task ahead of them, and i think underlying all of this talk of unity that we are heari

we're very determined to wage total war on boko haram. >> boko haram is no longer a local terror group that they were from 2002 to 2009. in 200 2009, they are better described as al-qaeda. >> we go to the nigerian capitol but first let's go to paris. a very real sense that leaders want to do something about boko haram, but at the end of the day, no clear plan. >> reporter: no, that's right. the summit has just broken up. the african leaders are on their way home, but they're on their way home with a problem, a big, big problem unresolved. lots of words of solidarity, but the headline, as you heard it there, total war on boko haram. what does that mean? better cooperation on borders particularly nigeria and cameroon where boko haram are crossing, and sometimes the nigerians feel frustrated. that was clearly demonstrated by president jonathan when he said they often could not go into hot pursuit which is what they would like to do, and we've seen a clear demonstration of that with the recent attack across the border on cameroon on the chinese installation. but that's what they're aiming

losely translated boko haram means western education is sinful. it's members want to create an islamic state and stamp out any activity linked with western society. for the past five years they've led an armed campaign against the nigeria government mainly in the north of the country attacking schools, police stations and other official buildings. thousands of people have been killed or wounded. the group's leader is this man, a radical ideologue who said he enjoys killing. last year the nigerian president declared in the three states where boko haram is strongest. this film in march where four attacks killed more than 100 students in the past year. in one incident 32 students were killed at the federal boarding school in the remote town. every building in the school compound was burned down. the international community has condemned boko haram with the u.s. government calling it a terrorist organization. >> let me be clear. the kidnapping of hundreds of children by boko haram is an unconscionable crime, and we will do anything possible to support

a takes a stance against boko haram. though he agreed with it is, this is what he said. >> those al qaeda guys are already committed towards the far enemy. you and me. boko haram is not. it's local. we are making a choice. i think it's right but it carries consequences. we are putting an american face on opposition to boko haram. an organization that doesn't target americans yet and we may accelerate that process because of what we've done. >> that seems in some ways a compelling argument, congressman. >> i respect michael hayden. he knows a great deal about it. we were looking at it from the perspective of trying to identify where in fact al qaeda had been met taft stizing. of course, it wasn't just the blowing up of the -- of the u.n. facility. the attack on the schoolgirls, i mean, of the churches, the christmas day attack of the sunday mass around the holiday, in my mind, was an eye opener. we also saw a greater sophistication in the way this group is acting. and you remember it was a failure of imagination a couple

we're talking about boko haram. "the new york times" read today abduction of girls, an act not even al qaeda can condone. tonight more than 200 girls are still missing. thousands of people slaughtered this year, hundreds just this week. bodies are burned, throats solicislit. and we're talking about civilians. nigeria's president today said the end of boko is near. >> i believe that the kidnap of these girls will be the beginning of end of terror in nigeria. >> many, though, believe boko haram is just getting started. >> for whatever reason, the secretary of state and the state department did not declare them a foreign terrorist organization until about six months ago. so we lost valuable time and a number of years. and for life of me i cannot understand why. >> that was time that didn't have to be lost. the administration was warned about the grave threat of boko haram two years ago by this man, the former commander of all american forces and operations in africa, general carter hamm. he is going to be our guest in

boko haram killed his landlords.hey came to the funeral and shot everybody to stop he is the sole survivor. he was met he backed -- med-evaced to the u.k.. they said, there's nothing we can do for you, let randy to america to stop they all have gunshots to the head. that is what they do. people fled inland. in this state, they are back in the rural communities. that is why they are fleeing. there is much for are the people inland. the world people literally ran out of town. entire villages on foot. there is a level of systematic behavior. they are also sporadic. like the assassination of this pastor. >> ryan? >> brian murphy. retired from the department of state. what would you have the international community do that has not been done? particularly in the united aids? >> the first recommendation is a change in the paradigm that they are using to look at this. this must be properly framed in the lands of jihad. then we can formulate appropriate responses. the u.s. has had extensive experience dealing with insurgencie

boko haram leader also makes a separate appearance. he says he will not let the girls go unless incarcerated members of the group are set free. as every day goes by confidence in the nigerian authorities has been steadily eroding. video, undoubtedly a new cause for anger grief and frustration, rawya rageh al jazeera abuja. >> j.j. green joins us. j.j. i imagine the first thing would be to authentic this tape. >> what they're going to be doing is looking for any kind of clues, any kind of digital signatures or electronic signatures that might be in this video. they're also going to be looking to figure out who's in it, how it was done, when it was done. writ was done. and how -- where it was done. and how it was passed on. those are things that can give them some information and suggestions as to how to treat this particular video that comes from boko haram at this point. and they are going to be doing this fairly slowly and fairly deliberately to make sure they don't overlook anything that you can certainly see in the tape or that you

boko haram has been trying to make a name since 2008. in 2010 it thought it could make a name by attacking the u.n. headquarters. no one noticed. this hashtag, the first lady has given this affiliate exactly the global attention it wanted. she made the situation worse. >> judith? >> that's the reason hillary clinton did not put them on the terrorism -- >> do you look like judith? i said judith. >> you opened it up. >> i'm kidding. >> boko haram is an indigenous group that gets money from al qaeda. the reason it wasn't designated, there was a fight within the government as frequently happens between the foreign service officers who said we think we can still talk to and change the course of this group versus the fbi -- >> as they were killing thousands of christians, muslims and women. >> that may have been the wrong decision but let's not turn it into a conspiracy or indifference. i think what they have done is forced good luck jonathan, the leader of that country to do something serious for the first time -- >> i don't think he's capabl

how boko haram stand within the muslim community. >> also, boko haram, we should point out attacks mosques and kills islams. >> most of those who have been killed by boko haram have been muslims. mosques have been bombed in the name of god, in the name of islam. terrorist groups worldwide basically claiming to be muslim but in fact, contradict every that is i a islam. >> when they say they're upset about western education, why are they so upset? what is so offense i have. >> they're ignorant of what people are doing in the west. they consider everything that we do in the west is evil. this is the image that they have back home in many muslim countries. what is a challenge now is to educate the muslims worldwide, to tell them what you have in mind about america. what you have in mind about the western world is not necessarily true. necessarily i need to educate werners and americans about islam. there are many who are ignorant about the teachings. they are ignorant about it. they thought everything else that west stands for is against islam. in fact, i don't see it that way. i see that isla

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more evenly and reform their army, they are not likely to defeat boko haram. to new york, where president barack obama is set to officially open the national september 11 museum built on the site of the world trade center. that museum houses thousands of items, including wrecked emergency vehicles and twisted metal from the collapsed twin towers. some of the most poignant exhibits are the personal items that belonged to the victims. >> the flag raised by firefighters over ground zero. the cross of steel beams that became a powerful symbol of the rescue effort. moving exhibits at the 911 museum in new york, now open after years of development on the site of the world trade center. >> the museum is a place where you can come to understand 9/11, the lives of those who were killed, and the lives of those who rushed here to help. it will help ensure that all future generations know what happened on that day and why it happened. >> the exhibits are poignant, sometimes harrowing. tissue dispensers are dotted throughout the museum for those overcome with emotion. visi

people didn't know who was civilians or boko haram. most blamed the government and said they did a poor job. the third element - and this has to do with the region itself - not many people notice, but nigeria has 144 entry points. only six were properly watched. which means a lot of coming and going in areas with conflict - the conflict spilling over to niger. this allowed coming and going to cameroon, making boko haram to have a base of operations in cameroon, in niger. and there's an ineffectiveness of properly shutting the gaps and focussing sadly too much on the military aspect than on the proper all-round aspect, tactic, that includes mobile adapted strategies and credibility. >> yan saint pierre - c.e.o. of modern security consulting group. thank you for joining us. >>> the us state department case the officers for the main syrian opposition group will become the official diplomatic foreign mission to the united states. secretary of state john kerry is set to meet with the president of the syrian national coalition on thursday. t

haram. >> residents lived in fear of the next attack from bell boko haram -- from boko haram. they have been trying to protect themselves. they want outside help. at the paris summit, the french totalent pledged to wage war on boko haram. backed by neighbors also an attendant, the leaders announced a mutual action plan. >> we will do our best. nigeria has 20,000 troops. have the terrorists. we have been scanning the areas with air crafts, and look at intelligence. >> the leaders one boko haram is far from just a local threat. they see the group is operating as the nigerian branch of al qaeda. haram is an organization that has close links to terrorists in africa. not just, its goal is to destabilize northern nigeria, but also all of nigeria neighboring countries. haveousands of civilians been killed in northern nigeria as the insurgents have left a trail of death and destruction. idrissspoke traveling in nigeria. we asked how big the threat is. high, threat is very especially in northern nigeria. it is more in the northeast of nigeria. the fear is still among many people of bok

the american government place boko haram as a terrorist organization. there are a lot of folks who think they should have acted quicker in doing so, but the united states and nigeria have a relative good relationship. the president has visited there in the past. bill clinton mobbed in the streets of nigeria below. i haven't heard of that coming up as an issue, david. >> thanks for that report. >>> several members of congress went to the nigerian embassy in washington to discuss the latest security challenges after boko haram attacks. bubefore they had turned down various offers of help, but not this time. >> nigeria is humbled. they are in pain. they love their children, and they are now, as they have been, drawing the world to help them go after the thugs. let's kill the cancer. let's drag out this vile person. >> u.s. diplomats think that the boko haram tying this latest event to the conference that the nigerian government is hosting. hundreds of foreign dignitaries, industrial leaders and business executives have gathered for the world economic forum

on monday boko haram released a video of the girls. u.s. experts studied the pictures closely for clues that might help find them. >> human rights groups say nigeria's government is to glam for the growing -- blame for the instability in the country. last week it was said they failed to address widespread poverty, corruption or police brutality. >> boko haram has a record of fighting and kidnappings. >> reporter: this is believed to be a boko haram training camp in northern nigeria. the men are shown thou use automatic weapons. the group existed for more than 10 years. loosely translated the name boko haram means western education is simple. members want to create an islamic state and stamp out activity ladies and gentlemened with western society. for the past five years they lead an armed campaign against the nigerian government - attacking schools, police stations and other buildings. thousands of people have been killed or wounded. the group's leader is this man, abubakar shekau. a radical idea log who says he enjoys killing. the nijan p

>> i don't believe that boko haram solved any problem.o not believe they have issues to negotiate with the government with. >> the military solution isn't working either, so what now? >> the military solution is not working. first, because we don't know that this government has even applied the defense budget to provide equipment for the military to fight with. but beyond that we are also worried that the government itself has been unable to deal with the development question. you have the military option of course but beyond the military where we can win this war against terrorism for instance you must also deal with the issue of providing infrastructure and provide employment and rebuild and a lot of the parts of the country and have been destroyed by this. we do not see the government is showing competence to be able to do this. >> thank you for speaking to us, and hee is with a nigerian civil activist society and he is in abuja. world news, the prime minister has been sentenced to six years in prison over a multi million corruption ca

help nigeria in the fight against boko haram.when boko haram sees little significance on what it can actually do to the group. one, the finances of this group are not known. what is actually known is they raid banks and steal money from local banks. they do use cars. they hardly use official financial roots for financing. the second thing, the way in which they acquire arm as. this is not officially known by the government. there are cases in which they raid military barracks. that's some how where they get most of their arms. it's really very -- there's little significance on what to do to the group boko haram. >> what is the latest in the search for the missing skill girls? >> the government is saying it sent in troops in order to search for girls. there's little information coming out on how far the government has gone. we know the united states has g?zñ7 deployed 80 military as men in order to helpñr with the surveillance. the uk also. the uniteed kingdom also sent in planes based in ghana. >>> the second person has died from

>> boko haram, we don't have exact numbers.he most important thing is that it is an extreme manifestation of a kind of shared frustration among many young people all across sub-saharan africa. boko haram is a terrorist group but a terrorist group that was initially driven by a sense of disenfranchisement, a sense of disinvestment, a sense of being on the periphery of the central government that wasn't taking care of it. a lack of employment opportunities also drove this. and that is something you see replicated across sub-saharan africa are met is why did the rise of -- why the rise of boko haram is been so dangerous. unemployment all over the world has been the highest since they started taking measurements. in the wake of the invasion in libya, arms floating around across the sahara to the south nowali and chad and northern nigeria, you have a really dangerous combination. grouparam was an islamist that ash the name is often misconstrued. it is not anti-religion or i'm sorry, anti-western, but mostly about the western educate

here's cnn's barbara starr. >> reporter: boko haram's deadly arsenal in four years.ed vehicle here. cnn has learned u.s. intelligence believes boko haram stole vehicles like this from the nigerian military. u.s. officials say the terror group also earns it enough money to buy whatever it can on africa's illegal weapons market, a web of crime and smuggling. weapons used to terrorize and kill the innocent. residents say boko haram arrived in armored personnel carriers wearing military uniforms to this village killing more than 300. >> our interagency team is hitting the ground in nigeria now. >> reporter: more u.s. assistance is on the way to help find the hundreds of kidnapped girls. a small u.s. military team is scheduled to arrive friday to join other military, law enforcement, and intelligence personnel already on the ground. the u.s. is talking to nigeria about providing surveillance assets. u.s. drones off perfect rating out of nearby nashir could be the center piece. >> they can help pin point the boko haram terrorists as well as the kidnapped girls. they could

at times they are outgunned by boko haram fighters. something that should not happen, given how well-founded the nigerian army is. >> between 2012 and 2013 we gave them about 1.5 trillion, and that translates to about $10 billion. even if they were given a quarter of that money, i am sure the - they wouldn't have been complaining of lack of equipment to fight. >> for now, boko haram continues its campaign of violence almost unhindered. it killed thousands of people. the last-month abduction of more than 270 school girls from the village of chibok by the group, it drew global attention. now the war against boko haram, like its attacks, could be taking on a regional dim possession. at a security summit in the capital of paris on saturday. nigeria, chad, cameroon and others agreed to share intelligence and coordinate their actions. >> boko haram will no longer find a safe haven in chad, nigeer or cameroon. the jointness that this creates enables the various nations to work together and recognise that boko haram is an international phenome

he says there could be inroads into boko haram's grip down the road. we need now is special development projects in the north of the country, where boko haram has been mainly based, and that involves irrigation, agriculture, redeveloping the desert, so that the local people are able to live and take part in nigerian society. he says it is not charity, it is enlightened self-interest. "if we do not give people something to live for, someone will always step in and give them something to die for." >> you've also been looking at coverage of syria. >> there is an exclusive on the front page of "the garden" paper in the u.k. --w they turned to deadly the explosion we saw at the citadel in aleppo him a massive explosion. the paper has an interview with abu -- one of the people packing in the last explosives in that bomb. he says they targeted syrian troops. 30 to 50 died. as soon as the bomb went off, it boosted morale on the revenue -- rebel side. he was a carpenter before the war. he says it took 33 days to build the tunnel and it was 107 meters long. amt

but the springs of boko haram are very deep. it boko haram dearrives support from the growing impoverishment and those are fundamentals that only the nigerian government can address and that will take some time to come about. >> thank you former ambassador john campbell. >>> now almost all of the soldiers accused in the rape trial in the democratic republic of congo have been cleared. 24 were convictof lesser charges such as looting. 130 women accused the soldiers of raping them during fighting in 2012. malcolmalcolm webb has more fro. >> 26 people in total going to jail but most of them have been charged with other crimes such as pillaging. 13 people have walked free, they're all disperse again bringing further criticism that there seems to be possibly impunity for high-ranking soldiers whereas the 26 who are going to jail are of lower ranks with the exception of one officer above them. the trial was fair, the right people did go to jail, and some people will say in a context of almost no justice at all, the first trial of its

at times they are outgunned by boko haram fighters. something the senator says should not happen given how well funded the nigerian army is. >> between 2012 and 2013 we gave them about 1.5 trillion lira. that translates to about $10 billion. even if they were given just a quarter of that money, i am sure there would a complaint of equipment to fight. >> for now boko haram continues its campaign of violence, almost unhindered. it killed thousands of people. its last month abduction of more than 270 school girls from the small village by the group that gripped global attention. now boko haram, like its attacks, they could take on a regional dimension. at a security summit. nigeria, chad, niger and cameroon agreed to share intelligence and share action against the group. >> boko haram will no longer find safe haven in chad, niger or cameroon. it means that the jointness of the pact creates, enables the nations to work together and recognise that boko haram is an international phenomenon and need to be stamped. >> reporter: while men in ni

reclusive and elusive about boko haram. how do you even deal with a group like that under this very tense situation? >> clearly, it is very tough. as you say we had criticisms what happened in the leadup to the attack. we are where we are now. i don't believe it is up to a human rights organization to give strategic advice on how to engage further. but there's a bigger-picture problem here in which we've seen far too many human rights violations on clearly terrible, terrible crimes by boko haram but quite serious violations by the security forces. moving forward we do need a sense of the rule of law where negotiations have taken place. we're really hoping if there can be some peaceful resolution. it's a small sacrum, assuming these individual videos are rea. >> you talk about the rule of law being abated, dealing with a group like boko haram, where in some cases we don't know exactly what they want. the rule of law gets vague there. i'm interested on your views much how to move this forward. -- on how to move this port. >>

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