Dubai, February 02: Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) leader has offered to train and supply Nigerian Muslims to carry out “violent jihad,” in an Internet message, US-monitoring agency SITE said today.
Abu Musab Abdul Wadud, in a message posted on a Jihadist forum yesterday, told Nigerian Muslims that they “must embrace violent jihad as the only means of defence against Christians in the country,” SITE said.
He was referring to last month’s riots between Christians and Muslims in the Nigerian city of Jos that left more than 300 dead.
“We are ready to train your children in weapons and to provide them with what we can of support, men, arms, ammunitions, and equipment to enable you to defend our people in Nigeria and to repulse the hostility of the Crusader minority,” Abdul Wadud added.
–Agencies