said his group has scored several victories
against the military during an ongoing
offensive while themselves sustaining little
damage, in a video seen by AFP on Tuesday.
"Since we started this ongoing war which they call
state of emergency ... in some instances soldiers
who faced us turned and ran," Abubakar Shekau
said in the hour-long video.
He claimed Nigerian forces "threw down their arms
in flight."
He called on like-minded Islamists in countries
including Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq to join the
fight to create an Islamic state in Nigeria.
"We call to us our brethren in these countries I
mentioned. Oh! Our brethren, come to us," he said
in the video, which alternates between Arabic and
the Hausa language spoken across northern
Nigeria.
Nigeria launched an offensive against Boko Haram
on May 15, after President Goodluck Jonathan
declared a state of emergency in the country's
northeast, the Islamist insurgents' stronghold.
The video was delivered to AFP through an
intermediary in a manner similar to previous Boko
Haram messages. The images of Shekau in the vieo
are consistent with those previously released.
The Boko Haram leader was designated a global
terrorist by the United states last year.
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