'I will sell them,' Boko Haram leader says of kidnapped Nigerian girls

[The Straight Story]

Fears for the fate of more than 200 Nigerian girls turned even more nightmarish Monday when the leader of the Islamist militant group that kidnapped them announced plans to sell them.

"I abducted your girls. I will sell them in the market, by Allah," a man claiming to be Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau said in a video first obtained by Agence France-Presse.

"There is a market for selling humans. Allah says I should sell. He commands me to sell. I will sell women. I sell women," he continued, according to a CNN translation from the local Hausa language.

Boko Haram is a terrorist group receiving training from al Qaeda affiliates, according to U.S. officials. Its name means "Western education is sin." In his nearly hourlong, rambling video, Shekau repeatedly called for Western education to end.



http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/05/world/africa/nigeria-abducted-girls/

[global1]

1. I'm Not Making A Joke Here - So Don't Take This The Wrong Way - But If They Interested In $'s....

Why don't we have a fund raiser across the country/the world for that matter - to raise money to buy these girls back from them?

Again I'm not trying to be funny. So please don't interpret it wrongly.

If they are capitalists and are only interested in how much money they can make off these girls - if they are offered millions that I'm sure could be raised if we put our minds to it - we could give them more money than they'd ever make selling them on what they call "....the market".

Then after we get the girls back and we are assured that the girls are safe - we can turn loose all humanity on these sick and twisted individuals to make sure that this never happens again and take them out.

Now granted - there might be something I'm missing here or not understanding this situation well enough. If so - please educate me on this.

I don't see this as negotiating with terrorists. I see this simply as a business transaction. You have something to sell - we have the money to buy. If buyer and seller come to financial terms - the transaction occurs.

Let's put aside that these girls were kidnapped and could be considered hostages and look at it as a simple business transaction. That would get us around the 'negotiating with terrorist' thing.

If I'm understanding this correctly - this group is not asking for ransom money. They have said: "I abducted your girls. I will sell them in the market..."

[Orrex]

4. IMO it would be a mistake to justify their business model by helping it to generate a profit

[CTyankee]

5. Sure, pretend to want to buy them but arrange the final meeting to be an ambush of

this guy and as many of his band of thugs we can wipe out. I say "we" meaning the U.S. to plan and carry this out, kinda the way we did in Bin Ladin. That's one option.

The guy has admitted his guilt already. Time for recovering the young women and getting rid of scum.

I guess you could say I'm mad...

[librechik]

2. buy back the girls and put your money where your mouth is

then render Boko Harem to Oxford or somewhere for a decent education.

[Bluenorthwest]

3. The name Boko Harem translates roughly as 'Non Islamic Education Is A Sin'. So good luck with Oxford

nt

[iandhr]

6. Maybe we can send a drone in his direction