Boko Haram Is The Elusive Master Mind Behind The Islamic...

The group, Boko Haram, was created 14 years ago by Mohammed Yusuf (1970-2009) to create and pure Islamic state in Nigeria. With the development in technology over the last ten years the internet has become a freeway of information. This has created the perfect opportunity for terrorist groups to blossom and spread their messages to lands far away from their previous reach. Mohammed Yusuf Ideals were focused on making Nigeria a â€Å"pure Islamic State†. In 2009 police found and killed him which with media access in the 21st century was filmed and posted online causing an uproar within the group causing escalated attacks and bombing in Nigeria causing the start of what is known as the rensurgence that started in 2011. The main targets for these†¦show more content†¦The fact the Nigeria’s poverty has always been an issue has not helped with stopping the terrorist organization. The National Bureau of Statistics has said that â€Å"60.9% of Nigerians in 2010 were living in absolute poverty- this figure had risen from 54.7% in 2004.† The worst of the poverty is in Northern Nigeria where the Boko Haram has taking large amounts of land over. In 2003, shortly after the first formation of the Boko Haram, Nigeria’s second-term president, Olusegun Obasanjo was declared winner of the election amid claims of fraud and intimidati on during the election which further divided the country. Since then there has been multiple presidents one of which goes by the name, Muhammadu Buhari, who in 2015 accused his security advisor of stealing nearly 2 billion that was suppose to go to the militaries effort to fight the Boko Haram. This weakness within the government over the past fourteen hasn’t helped decrease the Boko Harams death tolls or violence in Nigeria. In 2009, attacks escalated and the Boko Haram became its most powerful self, the group launched itself forward into terrorism with attack such as: â€Å"dozens of massacres of civilians and the abduction of more than 500 women and girls in its five-year insurgency in Nigeria. When a suicide bomber dressed as a student infiltrated a high school in northern Nigeria on Monday and detonated explosives in a backpack,