Following the unabated terror attacks perpetrated by
the Boko Haram insurgents across Nigeria and
neighbouring borders, the United States of America
president, Barack Obama, has warned Americans and
the whole world on the threat posed by the Islamic
militant group.
Speaking in Washington, DC on Sunday, 29 June, 2014,
President Obama said that the Boko Haram and other
terrorist groups were putting the United States and the
entire world under a very serious threat.
The US president with Kenyan blood (his father,
Barack Obama, Sr., was from Kenya) added that the
United States had been seriously threatened by these
various terrorist organizations for his entire time in
office and even before the September 11, 2001, attacks
which involved the late leader of the al-Qaeda, Mr Osama bin Laden.
Obama also revealed that his administration would do
all it could to ensure that all the terrorist groups
across the world were decisively fought till the world is
free from terrorism.
The American leader opined further that the terrorists
were gaining strength in some places, adding that his
administration was trying to boost its response to
terrorists trained in Iraq and Syria who, because of
European passports, would have little trouble getting to
the United States.
"We're spending a lot of time, and we have been for
years, making sure that we are improving intelligence
so that we can respond to that. There are going to be
times where we take strikes against organizations that
could do us harm," Obama said.
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