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ellenrr

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Thu Jul 17, 2014, 07:10 AM Jul 2014

Nigeria's Boko Haram 'More Extreme Than Al-Qaida,' Journalist Says

This is an astounding interview I heard yesterday On terry Gross show on NPR.
I have no way of knowing if what this journalist says is true,
but what I took away from the interview was terrifying:
a sect of young, badly educated men, who kill for the sake of killing, and who have no ideology and no goal aside from killing.

"Journalist Alex Perry wrote a recent cover story for Newsweek about the group and the new e-book The Hunt for Boko Haram: Investigating the Terror Tearing Nigeria Apart, published by Newsweek. He says Boko Haram doesn't have logical reasons for the atrocities it commits.

"If you're looking for logic and clarity and well-thought-out strategy in a group like Boko Haram, you're going to come up wanting," Perry tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross. "This is not smart jihadi thinking. These guys are really badly educated. They're dumb, essentially."

http://www.npr.org/2014/07/16/331988815/nigerias-boko-haram-more-extreme-than-al-qaida-journalist-says

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