TY  - SER
AU  - Zenn, Jacob
TI  - A Biography of Boko Haram and the Bay`a to al-Baghdadi
KW  - Boko Haram
KW  - Estado Islámico
KW  - Terrorismo
N2  - On March 7, 2015, Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau pledged loyalty (bay`a) to Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in an Arabic-language statement with English and French subtitles posted on Boko Haram’s official Twitter account, al-Urhwa al-Wutqha.1 Several days after this, the Islamic State posted videos of militants celebrating Shekau’s bay`a in Syria, Libya, and the new “Wilayat Euphrates” on the Iraq- Syria border, and the Islamic State’s spokesman announced that “the Caliph” accepted Shekau’s bay`a and called on Muslims to “emigrate and join your brothers in West Africa.”2 Although Shekau’s bay`a and its acceptance was seen as a surprise in some analyst and foreign policy circles, the trendlines for a Boko Haram-Islamic State merger were evident since at least July 2014, and the merger followed the strategic trajectory of both militant groups
UR  - https://www.ctc.usma.edu/posts/a-biography-of-boko-haram-and-the-baya-to-al-baghdadi
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