Boko Haram eclipsing al-Qaeda in its terrorist acts

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A new report detailing the extent to which the radical Islamist group Boko Haram is using brutality and murder to spread terror among Nigerian villages reveals that 2,053 people have been killed in 95 attacks in the first half of 2014.

Human Rights Watch, which authored the report, also said that the militant Islamist group is increasing its use of bombs, detonating 14 explosions that killed 423 people during that same period.

The blasts, including several apparent suicide bombings, occurred in a brothel, a technical college, marketplaces and, on two occasions, in venues where people were watching soccer matches.

In other attacks, armed Boko Haram militia opened fire in places of worship and elsewhere in the West African nation.

The group is also into kidnapping, including the 276 young Christian girls and women taken from the Nigerian village of Chibok last May, threatening to sell them into slavery to finance their activities. The U.S. State Department finally added Boko Haram to the list of dangerous terrorist groups last year, after Hillary Clinton resisted the effort for over four years. Like most terrorist groups, Boko Haram relies on poverty and unemployment, in their case the dominating economic reality of northwestern Nigeria, to recruit members.