boko haram as terrorists. unfortunately, the state department has not designated the boko haram as an organization as a foreign terrorist organization. we believe that still has to happen, and we are encouraging people to sign up with a petition to the white house, requesting that the boko haram be put on the foreign terrorist organization list. this is an organization responsible, in our count, this year alone, 1,317 civilians in nigeria have been killed by boko haram. no other country in the world has had that death toll of civilians, not even afghanistan. >> george: ann, let me jump in the few seconds we have remaining, why do you think the nigerian government has been unable so far to stop boko haram. is it a lack of will or is it something else? quickly, please. >> i believe it is an inability to effectively prosecute those responsible. i also believe there is pressure from outside, including from the united states, to actually negotiate with these terrorists. and that's something that needs to change and stop. prosecutions need to take place, impunity needs to stop. >> george: and there appears to be a n

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boko haram. nigerian military has a role to play but only as part of a broader strategy. >> with that i'm going toask a bit of a provocative question and it's looking at the federallally administered tribal area in particular, and some lessons which tend to export and import ideas from one theater to the other. but think of the more times al qaeda, network and others are looking over their shoulders the lest time they're training, plotting, and execute attacks. we don't have that same equivalent. when you're looking at narrow geographic areas such as northern mali, do you think these tools, whether it's -- again, these are just tactics. people fall in love with drones as a form over warfare. it's a means to an end. but do you see these techniques, and procedures, having a role in africa at some point? maybe not -- but in the future? >> i think they already do. and i would point to somalia as a place where that kind of approach is perhaps a subject for the future. never precisely analogous, but the african union-led effort in somalia, support any international community, to include the united state