The United States Department of State announced they are offering to send a team into Nigeria to find the over 200 girls kidnapped by the Islamic terror group Boko Haram.
The offer comes as Boko Haram has made another brazen attack on a Nigerian village, murdering 150 people at a crowded outdoor marketplace. The terrorists laughed and yelled “Allahu Akbar” as they threw improvised bombs and fired rocket-propelled grenades into innocent civilians.
The terrorists also set fire to buildings where people tried to take shelter from the murderous rampage.
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the U.S. will establish a “coordination cell” to provide intelligence, investigations and expertise in hostage negotiation. U.S. military personnel will be part of the cell and based at the U.S. Embassy in Abuja.
A spokesman for British Prime Minister David Cameron said they will be sending experts to assist the American team.
Boko Haram has kidnapped more girls.
The Islamic terrorist group, currently the subject of an international hunt after kidnapping over 200 girls from a school last month, abducted eight more girls from northeastern Nigeria overnight.
The girls were aged 12 to 15 like the other girls the group has kidnapped.
Residents of the village of Warabe said that the terrorists fired on homes in the village during the raid.
“They were many, and all of them carried guns. They came in two vehicles painted in army color. They started shooting in our village,” a villager told Yahoo news.
The girls were reportedly thrown into a truck with livestock and food and rushed out of the village. The Islamists have not commented whether those girls will be auctioned off as they threatened to do with the first batch of kidnapped girls.
A 17-year-old Minnesota boy has been taken into custody and charged with planning to kill his family and then go to his school and detonate a series of bombs.
The teen suspect, whose name is being withheld by officials, faces charges in juvenile court including four counts of attempted first-degree murder, six counts of possessing explosive or incendiary devices, and two counts of criminal damage to property.
Police were tipped off when a resident noticed something suspicious happening at a self-storage facility.
“This case is a classic example of citizens doing the right thing in calling the police when things seem out of place. By doing the right thing, (an) unimaginable tragedy has been prevented,” Capt. Kris Markeson of the Waseca police said at a press conference.
The teen admitted to police that he planned to kill his mother, father and sister before setting a fire in the rural part of the county to distract emergency responders. The he planned to set fires at the junior and senior high schools before throwing bombs and shooting as many students as possible.
The boy reportedly idolized the shooters of the 1999 Columbine massacre.
In their latest round of terror and blasphemy against Christ, terrorist group al-Qaeda has taken to hanging murder victims on crosses for public display.
A Syrian opposition group said that al-Qaeda based Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant killed dozens in the Syrian city of Ar-Raqqah and then hung the bodies on crosses with messages warning against standing up against Islamists.
Abu Ibrahim Alrquaoui, the head of a group called Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Slowly, says the move is the latest attempt by the Islamists to control the region through fear tactics.
“They want to stay in control,” Alrquaoui told Fox News. “Everything they do is to scare people. That’s why they kill people publicly.”
Jihadists across Syria have been resorting to the tactic of hanging victims on crosses for the last few months. Most of the victims are not actually left to die hanging on the crosses but are rather shot in the head after being lifted up.
The head of terrorist group Al Qaeda is calling on members worldwide to kidnap Americans to use for bargaining chips for the release of Muslim terrorists.
Ayman al-Zawahiri told the As-Sahab news service that Muslims should kidnap Westerners, especially Americans, so that they can be exchanged for what he called “captives” in Western prisons.
Al-Zawahiri spoke specifically of Omar Abdel-Rahman, known as the “blind sheikh”, that is serving a life sentence for his role in the 1993 World Trade Center bombings.
“I ask Allah the Glorious to help us set free Dr. Omar Abdel-Rahman and the rest of the captive Muslims,” al-Zawahiri said, “and I ask Allah to help us capture from among the Americans and the Westerners to enable us to exchange them for our captives.”
Al-Zawahiri also called on warring Muslim factions in Syria to come together in unity to overthrow the “criminal al-Assad regime.”
Seventy-one people died and over 120 were injured when a bomb exploded under a bus in a crowded bus station in Abuja, Nigeria.
Christian leaders in the nation said that the attack was carried out by the Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram in their deadliest attack on the country’s capital.
Friar Patrick Tor Alumuku, the director of Communications for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Abuja, told reporters that the bus depot where the explosion happened destroyed 16 luxury busses and 24 minibuses.
“The bus depot where the explosion took place is normally used by a large number of commuters to get to work in the center of the capital,” FFr. Alumuku said. “The victims are therefore normal people, who belong to the working class.”
The bus station was described as being in a “poor, ethnically and religiously mixed” area. Boko Haram has been working to create a civil war in the nation that is almost evenly split between Christians and Muslims.
The FBI is trying to downplay fears after a photo of San Francisco’s International Airport was found inside an al-Qaeda produced magazine.
The spring issue of “Inspire” has a picture of the AirTrain at San Francisco Airport. The AirTrain connects all the airport terminals with the Bay Area Regional Transit.
A caption with the photo written in Arabic says to “stand up, pack your tools of destruction. Assemble your bomb, ready for detonation.”
“The San Francisco area is depicted in this al-Qaida publication,” Congressman Eric Swalwell said in a Homeland Security committee hearing. “What we believe from what senior law enforcement officials have told us is that this is AirTrain from San Francisco’s airport, and that the translation from the Arabic message encourages al-Qaida members to detonate explosive devices.”
Former FBI agent Rick Smith told CBS San Francisco that there should be some concern but he wouldn’t change travel plans. However, he said the magazine is appealing to wanna-be terrorists who could be much more dangerous than actual al-Qaeda operatives.
The jihadist who was being sought by the FBI and military authorities after friends reported he was planning a Fort Hood style attack reportedly posted his impending attack on social media.
Muhammad Abdullah Hassan, who was known as John Thomas Booker before his conversion to Islam, posted on Facebook March 19th of his intent to die.
“Getting ready to be killed in jihad is a HUGE adrenaline rush! I am so nervous,” Hassan posted. “NOT because I’m scared to die but I am EAGER to meet my lord.”
Hassan was discharged by the Army on March 28th after the confirmed the postings and comments to friends. However, the FBI and military officials put out an alert for Hassan because of his intentions to cause harm to troops.
And FBI spokesman said there is no imminent threat to public safety.
Sources told FoxNews that Hassan has been placed inside a locked mental health facility for evaluation and treatment.
A man who had been scheduled to report to basic training next week is now on the run after the FBI claims he was planning an Islamic terrorist attack on U.S. troops.
Muhammad Abdullah Hassan, who goes by the alias “Booker,” had been recruited into the U.S. Army in Kansas City, Missouri February 2014. Military officials discharged him last week after his plot was discovered by law enforcement.
Friends of Hassan who claimed he was bragging about his upcoming attack had reportedly contacted the FBI.
The FBI is working with the 902d Military Intelligence Group in attempting to track down Hassan.
The Fort Hood attack which is being used as inspiration by Hassan happened November 5, 2009 when Army Major Nidal Hasan, a radical Muslim, killed 13 people and injured dozens at Fort Hood, Texas. He was sentenced to death after his trial last August.
Law enforcement sources say that Hassan might not be the only one plotting a similar attack.
The Taliban continues their campaign against women and children after four gunmen shot and killed at least two children in their latest terror attack.
Four members of the Islamic terrorist group walked into a restaurant at a hotel in Kabul, Afghanistan, pulled out pistols and began shooting diners in the head. Women and children appeared to be especially targeted by the terrorists.
Security officials were stunned the terrorists made their way into the Serena hotel, which is known for having some of the strongest security in Kabul. They discovered after searching the bodies of the terrorists that they had concealed the weapons inside their shoes.
The attack is part of a stepped up terror campaign ahead of April 5th elections in Afghanistan.
“Our people, if they decide to attack any place, can do it,” Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said in a statement claiming responsibility for the murders.
