In a new video from
Boko Haram (I keep wanting to call them
Procol Harum , which I guess shows my age), their leader apparently says
he\'s willing to trade the girls for imprisoned members of his group . The U.S. keeps saying we won't negotiate with terrorists while we negotiate with them, so it will be interesting to see where this goes.
...A worldwide effort has begun to try to rescue them, with the United States, France, Britain and most recently Israel pledging to help. The Nigerian military has waged an aggressive, at times brutal, offensive in the region, but so far it has proved unable to make any advances toward the girls’ recovery.
But in Monday’s video, Mr. Shekau apparently offered a hint about what might induce him to release the girls from Boko Haram’s clutches.
“We will never release them until our brethren are released,” he said. “Our brethren that are held in Borno in Yobe, in Kano, in Kaduna, in Abuja, in Lagos and Enugu. Our brethren that are held all over Nigeria,” Mr. Shekau said.
The Nigerian government has not acknowledged any negotiation with the group, though one high official in the north has said some type of bargaining appears to be going on.
Onward and upward,
airforce
