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Boko Haram: Emerging Threat to the U.S. Homeland

Boko Haram: Emerging Threat to the U.S. Homeland

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Publication Date: June 1st, 2012
Publisher:
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN:
9781477573853
Pages:
30
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Description

On August 26, 2011, a suicide bomber drove a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBIED) into the United Nations (U.N.) headquarters in Abuja, Nigeria, killing 23 people and injuring more than 80 others.1 Responsibility for the bombing, one of the deadliest in the United Nations' history, was claimed by Boko Haram, an Islamist religious sect turned insurgent group based in the predominantly Muslim northern Nigeria. While this attack occurred inside Nigerian borders, it was the first time Boko Haram had targeted an international, non-Nigerian entity.