Terrorist Abubakar Shekau has been mentioned by Time as 100 most influential people of the year 2014.
Below is how they report it.
Abubakar Shekau
By General Carter Ham (U.S. Army, retired)
Scourge of Africa
Americans do not yet recognize his name, but the citizens of Nigeria,
Africa’s most populous country, know Abubakar Shekau all too well:
he is the most violent killer their country has ever seen. Shekau
took over the terrorist organization Boko Haram in 2009 after the
group had been weakened by Nigerian government forces.
Shekau,
who is believed to be in his 30s, began to stage increasingly daring
kidnapping and killing raids on schools, churches and mosques thought
by Boko Haram to be violating their interpretation of Islam. The
taking of over 200 schoolgirls in April 2014 brought Boko Haram into
the international spotlight.
By
most accounts, Boko Haram has killed more than 10,000 people and is
spreading into neighboring countries. Shekau’s latest action may
finally summon a U.S. response: he has publicly aligned his group
with ISIS, the terrorist group that holds territory in Syria and Iraq
and has expanded its reach into Yemen and Libya.
