Experts at Congressional Hearing Warn of Threat to U.S. from Nigeria's Boko Haram
1 Dec 2011 00:56 Africa/Lagos Experts at Congressional Hearing Warn of Threat to U.S. from Nigeria-Based Boko Haram, Link to AQIM PR Newswire WASHINGTON, Nov. 30, 2011 Cite danger of expanding terrorist ties across Africa's Sahel, flooded by Libyan arms WASHINGTON, Nov. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- At a hearing today of the House Committee on Homeland Security's Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence, experts warned that the Nigeria-based militant group, Boko Haram, is posing an emerging threat to U.S. interests and the U.S. homeland. The panel also heard compelling evidence that Boko Haram has established links to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), which is expanding a broad network of terrorist ties to militant groups across Africa's Sahel, including Somalia-based al-Shabaab, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), and members of the separatist Polisario Front based in Algeria. "The U.S. intelligence community has underestimated the threat po...