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ABU QAQA, BOKO HARAM’S SPOKESMAN, ARRESTED
ABU QAQA, BOKO HARAM’S SPOKESMAN,
ARRESTED
Nigeria’s secret service has arrested Abu Qaqa, the spokesman for Boko Haram, who frequently made statements to the media after attacks by the radical Islamist group, according to security sources on 02/01/2012.
Abu Qaqa was held in the northern city of Kaduna in the early hours of the morning, the State Security Services (SSS) source told the Reuters news agency on Wednesday. “We are still taking to him. Since ‘Abu Qaqa’ is a pseudonym for the Boko Haram spokesman, we want to be sure of who we have with us. But we have been on his trail for months now. He’s been changing locations and contacts,” the source said.
Ahmed Abdullahi, the Borno state director of the SSS, told the Associated Press on Wednesday night that they had arrested found the man by tracking his mobile-phone signal. Abdullahi says the man was a Nigerian citizen, but declined to name him and that he served as a go-between for journalists and Boko Haram. But questions are being raised about how credible and important his capture is.
Abu Qaqa has been known to have given statements to journalists about the group’s aims and ambitions but the SSS will most likely interrogate him to gain intelligence that may lead to the apprehension of other Boko Haram members, foreign correspondents said.
There have been speculations that there is a split in Boko Haram and Abu Qaqa’s interigation can shed light on the issue.
Abu Qaqa was held in the northern city of Kaduna in the early hours of the morning, the State Security Services (SSS) source told the Reuters news agency on Wednesday. “We are still taking to him. Since ‘Abu Qaqa’ is a pseudonym for the Boko Haram spokesman, we want to be sure of who we have with us. But we have been on his trail for months now. He’s been changing locations and contacts,” the source said.
Ahmed Abdullahi, the Borno state director of the SSS, told the Associated Press on Wednesday night that they had arrested found the man by tracking his mobile-phone signal. Abdullahi says the man was a Nigerian citizen, but declined to name him and that he served as a go-between for journalists and Boko Haram. But questions are being raised about how credible and important his capture is.
Abu Qaqa has been known to have given statements to journalists about the group’s aims and ambitions but the SSS will most likely interrogate him to gain intelligence that may lead to the apprehension of other Boko Haram members, foreign correspondents said.
There have been speculations that there is a split in Boko Haram and Abu Qaqa’s interigation can shed light on the issue.
* In a phone conference with journalists in the northeastern city of Maiduguri on Thursday 02/02/2012, Boko Haram said that Abu Dardaa, the group’s head of “public enlightenment”, was arrested and not spokesman Abu Qaqa.
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