Nigeria: Boko Haram - We're Ready for Battle, New Leader Says

15 August 2009

Lagos — The emergent leader of the controversial Boko Haram religious sect, Sanni Umaru has vowed to continue waging a religious war "in Nigeria which no force on earth can stop."

Umaru, in an e-mail sent to newsrooms, said his group's aim "is to Islamise Nigeria and ensure the rule of the majority Muslims in the country," adding that "we will teach Nigeria a lesson, a very bitter one."

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