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=== Boko Haram ===
=== Boko Haram ===
In April 2014, during a raid on Chibok, [[Boko Haram]], an Islamic Jihadist and terrorist organization based in northeast [[Nigeria]], took prisoner several hundred Christian schoolgirls, who, after efforts to secure their release were ineffective, were sold in slave auctions to prospective husbands and forcibly converted to Islam.<ref name=csmonitor1>{{cite news|author=Howard LaFranchi|url=https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Foreign-Policy/2014/0505/What-role-for-US-in-efforts-to-rescue-Nigeria-s-kidnapped-girls-video |title=What role for US in efforts to rescue Nigeria's kidnapped girls?|publisher=CSMonitor|date=5 May 2014|accessdate=}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://therainbow.com.ng/tabloid/boko-haram-kidnapped-the-230-school-girls-as-wives-for-its-insurgents/ |title=Boko Haram kidnapped the 230 school girls as wives for its insurgents|work=The Rainbow|date=29 April 2014|accessdate=}}{{dead link|date=April 2015}}</ref><ref name=TelegApr30>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/nigeria/10797454/Nigeria-kidnapped-schoolgirls-sold-as-wives-to-Islamist-fighters.html|title=Nigeria: kidnapped schoolgirls 'sold as wives to Islamist fighters'|first=Laura|last=Heaton|work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|date=30 April 2014|accessdate=}}</ref> In May, a video in which Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau claimed responsibility for the kidnappings emerged; he claimed, ''"Allah instructed me to sell them...I will carry out his instructions."''<ref name =BBC>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-27283383|title=Boko Haram admits abducting Nigeria girls from Chibok|publisher=BBC News|date=5 May 2014|accessdate=}}</ref> and ''"Slavery is allowed in my religion, and I shall capture people and make them [[slave]]s."''<ref name=CNNEssenceTerror>{{cite news|url=https://www.cnn.com/2014/05/06/world/africa/nigeria-boko-haram-analysis/|agency=[[CNN]]|title=Boko Haram: The essence of terror|last=Lister|first=Tim|date=6 May 2014 |accessdate=}}</ref> He said the girls should not have been in school and instead should have been married since girls as young as nine are suitable for marriage.<ref name=BBC/><ref name=CNNEssenceTerror/>
In April 2014, during a raid on Chibok, [[Boko Haram]], an Islamic Jihadist and terrorist organization based in northeast [[Nigeria]], took prisoner several hundred Christian schoolgirls, who, after efforts to secure their release were ineffective, were sold in slave auctions to prospective husbands and forcibly converted to Islam.<ref name=csmonitor1>{{cite news|author=Howard LaFranchi|url=https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Foreign-Policy/2014/0505/What-role-for-US-in-efforts-to-rescue-Nigeria-s-kidnapped-girls-video |title=What role for US in efforts to rescue Nigeria's kidnapped girls?|publisher=CSMonitor|date=5 May 2014|accessdate=}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://therainbow.com.ng/tabloid/boko-haram-kidnapped-the-230-school-girls-as-wives-for-its-insurgents/ |title=Boko Haram kidnapped the 230 school girls as wives for its insurgents|work=The Rainbow|date=29 April 2014|accessdate=}}{{dead link|date=April 2015}}</ref><ref name=TelegApr30>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/nigeria/10797454/Nigeria-kidnapped-schoolgirls-sold-as-wives-to-Islamist-fighters.html|title=Nigeria: kidnapped schoolgirls 'sold as wives to Islamist fighters'|first=Laura|last=Heaton|work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|date=30 April 2014|accessdate=}}</ref> In May, a video in which Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau claimed responsibility for the kidnappings emerged; he claimed, ''"Allah instructed me to sell them...I will carry out his instructions."''<ref name =BBC>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-27283383|title=Boko Haram admits abducting Nigeria girls from Chibok|publisher=BBC News|date=5 May 2014|accessdate=}}</ref> and ''"Slavery is allowed in my religion, and I shall capture people and make them [[slave]]s."''<ref name=CNNEssenceTerror>{{cite news|url=https://www.cnn.com/2014/05/06/world/africa/nigeria-boko-haram-analysis/|agency=[[CNN]]|title=Boko Haram: The essence of terror|last=Lister|first=Tim|date=6 May 2014 |accessdate=}}</ref> He said the girls should not have been in school and instead should have been married since girls as young as nine are suitable for marriage.<ref name=BBC/><ref name=CNNEssenceTerror/>
[[Hillary Clinton]] refused to place Boko Haram on the [[Obama]] [[State Department]]'s list of foreign terrorist organizations. The refusal came despite the urging of the Justice Department, the FBI, the CIA, and over a dozen Senators and Congressmen.<ref>Morrissey, Ed (May 8, 2014). [https://hotair.com/archives/2014/05/08/did-hillary-refuse-to-designate-boko-haram-as-a-terrorist-organization/ "Did Hillary refuse to designate Boko Haram as a terrorist organization?"] Hot Air website.</ref> Placing Boko Haram on the State Department's terrorist list would then give legal authority to the CIA or FBI to act.
=== Darfur ===
=== Darfur ===