U.S. to name Nigeria's Boko Haram as terrorist group: sources

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Source: Reuters

The U.S. State Department will formally designate the Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram as a "foreign terrorist organization" on Wednesday, congressional sources and others briefed on the matter said.

The designation is significant because it directs U.S. law enforcement and regulatory agencies to block business and financial transactions with Boko Haram, which wants to impose Islamic law in northern Nigeria.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/12/us-usa-nigeria-boko-idUSBRE9AB19N20131112

[dimbear]

1. Surprised that monstrous organization wasn't already on the list. Rumor has it Osama bin Laden

thought they were too extreme.

[sharp_stick]

2. I can't be the only one that thought of

these guys after reading that too fast.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

5. Procol Harum? Terrists? Stones would kick their asses! nt

[Posteritatis]

3. That is astonishingly overdue. (nt)

[madrchsod]

4. it took two years....

http://homeland.house.gov/press-release/homeland-security-committee-report-details-emerging-homeland-threat-posed-africa-based

makes ya wonder does`t it....