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Abduction vaults Boko Haram leader into headlines

By Washington Examiner
Published May 7, 2014 7:09pm ET
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Abduction vaults Boko Haram leader into headlines
FILE - In this file image made from video received by The Associated Press on Monday, May 5, 2014, Abubakar Shekau, the leader of Nigeria's Islamic extremist group Boko Haram, speaks in a video in which his group claimed responsibility for the April 15 mass abduction of nearly 300 teenage schoolgirls in northeast Nigeria. Even before the kidnapping, the U.S. government was offering up to a $7 million reward for information leading to the arrest of Shekau, whom the U.S. has labeled a specially designated global terrorist. (AP Photo/File) | Uncredited

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Tugging on his winter hat, the Islamic militant leader declared with a sneer: “I will sell women.”

His name is Abubakar Shekau, commander of Nigeria’s most feared terror group, Boko Haram. His threat to sell nearly 300 teenage school girls abducted from a school in remote northeast Nigeria came in a grainy video released this week.

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