The leader of Nigeria's Boko Haram group has labeled U.S. President Barack Obama as “terrorist” after Washington after Washington branded him as a “global terrorist.”
“You said I'm a global terrorist, then you are a terrorist in the next world,” Abubakar Shekau said in the Hausa language in an online video posted on YouTube on Saturday.
Shekau made the remarks after the U.S. State Department labeled Shekau and two other Nigerians, Abubakar Adam Kambar and Khalid al-Barnawi as terrorists, allowing the U.S. officials to freeze their assets in the United States.
“I know the United States exists, but I don't know which part of the world it is located in, whether in the west or the north, the south or the east. I don't know where it is, not to talk of freezing my assets there,” he added.
The clip could not be independently verified as authentic, but it was similar to previous videos of Shekau.
Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for a number of deadly gun and bomb attacks in various parts of Nigeria since 2009.
Human rights groups report that violent actions by Boko Haram since mid-2009 have claimed more than 1,000 lives, including over 300 this year alone.
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