Boko Haram might be using kidnapped girls as suicide bombers

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published 15 January 2015

Terrorism experts believe Boko Haram has begun coercing young girls into becoming suicide bombers in Nigeria. Three young female suicide bombers as young as 10 years old carried out attacks last weekend just days after Boko Haram, a militant group fighting to create an Islamic state, raided and torched at least 10 towns in northeastern Nigeria, leaving around 2,000 people missing and feared dead. Terrorism experts said Boko Haram might be indoctrinating kidnapped schoolgirls and using them as bombers. Read more at NBC News. —Harold Maass

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Harold Maass is a contributing editor at The Week. He has been writing for The Week since the 2001 debut of the U.S. print edition and served as editor of TheWeek.com when it launched in 2008. Harold started his career as a newspaper reporter in South Florida and Haiti. He has previously worked for a variety of news outlets, including The Miami Herald, ABC News and Fox News, and for several years wrote a daily roundup of financial news for The Week and Yahoo Finance.

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