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Boko Haram spokesman Abul Qaqa threatened to carry out mass-casualty attacks in Sokoto if its fighters are not released from prison. Abubakar Shekau, the emir of Boko Haram, distributed pamphlets in Kano urging Muslims to support the jihad.

Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.

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