Posted on 05/11/2014 8:29:46 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A teenage girl who managed to escape kidnapping by Islamist group Boko Haram during a night raid in Nigeria last month has spoken publicly about the ordeal, as international assistance to locate more than 200 girls still held hostage ramps up.
Militants stormed a secondary school in the village of Chibok, near the Cameroon border, on April 14 and abducted the girls, who were taking exams at the time.
In an exclusive interview with CNN, one of the girls, who asked not to be identified, said the kidnappers were loading the girls into seven lorries when she escaped.
"He said go and enter this car - a big lorry," she said.
We ran and ran and we were gone. I feel afraid. The unidentified girl who escaped abduction. "They say OK - enter this lorry, we go. I say I will drop down.
"We run in the bush. We ran and ran and we were gone.
"I feel afraid."
More than 200 girls are still being held hostage, and Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau says the group intends to sell the teenagers.
"I abducted your girls. I will sell them in the market, by Allah," he said in a video released shortly after the attack.
Boko Haram, which means "Western education is sinful", is loosely modelled on the Taliban movement in Afghanistan. The group considers all who do not follow its strict ideology as infidels, whether they are Christian or Muslim.
It demands the adoption of Sharia law in all of Nigeria.
"Allah has instructed me to sell them. They are his property and I will carry out his instructions."
The group's name means "Western education is sinful" and in the video, Shekau makes reference to the fact that the girls were undergoing Western education.
The abduction has sparked worldwide outrage, with several nations offering military and intelligence assistance to locate the girls.
Diplomats, aid workers, defence officials and other experts from Britain and the United States have been working with the Nigerian government since Saturday.
Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan says he is optimistic about finding those still held hostage, citing international support, with Israel the latest country to offer help.
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not give details of the proposed assistance but Mr Jonathan confirmed the offer to send a team of counter-terrorism experts was made during a phone conversation.
A viral social media campaign calling for the schoolgirls' return has seen public figures such as US first lady Michelle Obama tweeting with the hashtag #BringBackOurGirls.
On Sunday, French president Francois Hollande called on African leaders to hold a summit in Paris on security in west Africa.
The leaders of at least five African countries - Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon, Niger and Benin - may take part, a source close to the president said.
THanks Hillary!
What an ignorant idiot. Like THAT'S going to help!
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/05/90-of-abducted-nigerian-schoolgirls-are-christians-jihadists-released-muslim-girls
90% of abducted Nigerian schoolgirls are Christians; jihadists released Muslim girls
Robert Spencer May 11, 2014 at 1:54pm Islamic supremacism, Nigeria 28 Comments
Hillary fought to keep Boko Haram off known terrorist list against the advice if our CIA FBI and Her Own dept advisors...
Hillary is a Total Failure and must never be allowed to hold any Govt Office again.
She is a disgrace to America. Her hands are covered with innocent’s Blood.
Have any major Muslim clerics declared a fatwa agains the kidnappers for violating Islamic principles??
More than 200 girls are still being held hostage, and Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau says the group intends to sell the teenagers.
Bad joke, but Anthony Weiner, Bill Clinton, and Gary Condit offered to buy them.
I hope the Nigerian authorities get them out unharmed.
CNN would ask: "Does it upset you that Condoleeza Rice refused to name Boko Haram as a terrorist group? Do you think this could have been prevented if she hadn't protected them?"
Not so far as I have read. That’s another thing that makes this story heartbreaking and deeply troubling. This taken together with the murder of the boys at their school seem to be what happens in Africa to young people who want to better themselves and their country. Nigeria is stuck with a self interested thug like Goodluck Jonathan and nothing better is on the horizon.
Michelle Obama could give up one of her vacations and use the money to buy all of the 200 girls their freedom. But her vacations are sooo much more important.
Where does she get off calling herself "first lady"? It's not even clear that "she" is a woman.
“...The unidentified girl who escaped abduction...”
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The girl is “unidentified” to conceal her Muslim name. The 10% of the abducted girls who are Muslim were released by the jihadists.
Didn’t Boko Haram carry out that mall attack? Is there a time line list of Boko Haram atrocities?
I just got off the phone with God. It is not often I get a phone call from the Almighty. When I do, it is a special time. God told me that Cain and Able started things off on a bad foot and it was all down hill ever since. He is especially concerned that humans put words into his mouth that encourage murder and violence. He prefers that humans love one another as he loves them. And when there is punishment for ones actions, he does not want punishment in his name or punishment done for him. If there is punishment, leave it up to him.
He is especially concerned about those who think it is their right to take his place and play god over their fellow human beings. All is done as false prophets with hatred instead of love for their fellow man.
I'll let everyone know what God tells me in our next phone call. It should be interesting.
the Boko bunnies , need to tracked down , hunted down , like game , and killed . To the man . No arrests , no mercy , no judicial shenanigans . Find their families they sprang forth from and kill them too . Really , utterly wipe them from the face of the earth , expunge them , and their kin , from t he fabric of humanity . End of problem . And a wake up call for whatever wannabes might be lurking .
And this is our problem because.... ?
Search the phrase “Promise of hashtag”.
Yes. they are idiots.
Get a sense of it by FR title search Nigeria and click on archive (go back to a least 2011). Your head might explode.
In case anyone is confused: Allah = Satan
boko haram, wasn’t that a band from the 60s?
On a more serious note, wherever there is islam there will be this kind of thing. It’s as inevitable as 1+1=2.
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