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McCaul Statement on Boko Haram Declaring Allegiance to ISIS

Statement

Date: March 7, 2015
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: National Security Foreign Affairs

Today, U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement on the apparent declaration of allegiance by Nigeria-based Islamist terror group Boko Haram to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS):

Chairman McCaul: "A year ago, President Obama called ISIS the "JV team' of terror. Now, with the allegiance of Boko Haram and other brutal Islamist extremists groups, these barbaric terrorists have a direct presence, affiliates or significant support in more than a dozen countries - and an even greater capacity to plot attacks against the United States and our allies. The president must lay out a sweeping plan backed up by the tools necessary to win this war before more Islamist terrorist groups join together in taking aim at the West."


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