EXCLUSIVE: Boko Haram Was Online with Al Qaeda During 'Conference Call' Intercepted by the U.S.A.
Boko Haram leaders were among participants in an extensive “conference call” organised by Al Qaeda to plan massive terrorist attacks. This fact was reported on August 7, 2013, when more details of the interception by the U.S. intelligence became available.
The
data obtained from the ‘conference’ triggered the closure of 20
American embassies, including four from sub-Saharan Africa countries,
namely, Rwanda, Burundi, Mauritius, and Madagascar.
Officials,
according to initial media reports, said the decision was taken after
communications between al Qaeda leader, Egyptian-born, Ayman Zawahiri,
and the group’s leader in Yemen, Nasser al-Wuhayshi, were intercepted
last week. From other sources it has been gathered that the discussion
between the two al Qaeda leaders was in a conference call that included
the leaders or representatives of al Qaeda and its
affiliates, who
called through a presumably secure network, from different locations.
Three anonymous American operatives reported of more than 20 al Qaeda operatives were on the call.
“Al
Qaeda members included representatives or leaders from Nigeria’s Boko
Haram, the Pakistani Taliban, al Qaeda in Iraq, al Qaeda in the Islamic
Maghreb, and more obscure al Qaeda affiliates such as the Uzbekistan
branch,” the report said. “Also on the call were representatives of
aspiring al Qaeda affiliates such as al Qaeda in the Sinai Peninsula,
according to a U.S. intelligence official.” “This was like a meeting of
the Legion of Doom,” another intelligence officer concluded.
The
report, widely sourced by other U.S. media on Wednesday, reflected the
global reaches of Boko Haram as the Nigerian government struggles back
home to contain the deadly group that has massacred thousands of
civilians.
Again,
while Boko Haram appears on the U.S. list, the notorious Somali terror
group, Al Shabaab, which operates on the horn of Africa, was not
mentioned, potentially, a measure of Boko Haram’s strategic importance
in the global terror network.
Also
during the meeting, the various al Qaeda leaders discussed in vague
terms plans for a pending attack and mentioned that a team or teams were
already in place for such an attack. For some leading members of
Congress, the revelation that al Qaeda’s leadership in Pakistan is
actively managing and directing the operations of several affiliates
directly refutes the Obama administration’s repeated assertion that the
leadership of the core of the group has been decimated by American drone
strikes and special operations forces while the affiliate groups have
been strengthened.
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