AQ had a worldwide conference call

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We now know for certain that Boko Haram is an al-Qaeda front. It had only seemed to have become one when they went from an obscure joke to well-supplied, well-trained, and effectively threatening the security of the whole country in one year. On the one hand, it's interesting to learn this stuff. On the other, all of the press is telling the bad guys how close the good guys are to their operation and it's going to cause them to find and close their own leaks.

Also, I cannot complain enough about how the US position on Nigeria has been to assume Boko Haram has legitimate grievances based on economics and to demand the government be ever more conciliatory to them.