Revealed: Boko Haram Using Birds to Bomb

There is a revealed plan of Boko Haram sect using birds as their bombing aid. It said,they may strap tiny IEDs to the birds and they would explode in the due time.
       The Commander of a multinational force fighting
the Islamist insurgents, Maj.-Gen. Lamidi
Adeosun, has said that Boko Haram is strapping
bombs to birds as it continues to develop more
deadly weapons for
its bloody attacks.
Adeosun, according to The Independent, a United
Kingdom newspaper, revealed the discovery at a
meeting with American diplomats and security
officials.
The report added that Adeosun showed
gruesome photos of the victims of Boko Haram’s
attacks and their latest weapons during the
briefing at the Multinational Joint Task Force’s
headquarters in Chad on Wednesday.
One picture showed a bird with an explosive
strapped on its back, demonstrating “a lot of
ingenuity,” he said.
Adeosun said his force had received intelligence
that Isis members were being imbedded with
Boko Haram but that the Nigerian terrorist group
had not satisfied requirements for greater
operational coordination.
It was not the first report of birds being used to
carry explosive devices.
Photos emerged in July last year claiming to
show bombs strapped to chickens by Isis
fighters in the Iraqi city of Fallujah.
There was speculation that they could be
resorting to increasingly bizarre means of
destruction while running out of ammunition but
the account could not be verified.
The Syrian Army said Isis had rigged animals
with explosives in Palmyra.
Isis is known to be unusually liberal with its use
of explosives which it manufactures, using cheap
chemicals and equipment readily available on the
civilian market.
A Syrian officer involved in the operation to re-
take the group’s former stronghold of Palmyra
last month described how Jihadists had “booby-
trapped everything”, including animals and trees.
Boko Haram’s leader, Abubakar Shekau, made a
pledge of allegiance to Isis in March last year
and released a message, urging its fellow sub-
Saharan Jihadists to do the same, further
increasing the group’s reach.
Brigadier-General Donald Bolduc, Commander of
the United States Special Operations in Africa,
described the surrounding Lake Chad Basin
region as “ground zero” in the fight against
extremism in Africa.
America, Britain and other European nations are
among those supporting military intervention
against Boko Haram.
More than 30 personnel from the British Army’s
Royal Anglian Regiment were deployed to train
Nigerian soldiers earlier this year.
“We stand united with Nigeria in its efforts to
defeat the murderous Boko Haram extremists,”
Michael Fallon, the Defence Secretary, said at
the time.
He pledged to double the number of British
personnel carrying out training in Nigeria this
year, sending explosives specialists, medics and
an RAF training team.
Meanwhile, the Nigerian Army has advised the
members of the public to refrain from moves to
organise solidarity rallies to celebrate the recent
successes of the military against the Boko
Haram sect in the North-East.
The Acting Director, Army Public Relations, Col.
Sani Usman, said in a statement on Thursday
that while the army was not against the public’s
desire to associate with the successes of the
military, it would not want such solidarity rallies.
Usman said that the army authorities had
received information that some people were
planning to celebrate the current victories
against the insurgents through rallies.
He said that it was necessary for the public to
exhibit some caution as such rallies could
distract the military and the Boko Haram sect may also gain advantage of the rallies.