Sudan President: CIA and Mossad Stand Behind ISIL, Boko Haram

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Sudan's President, Omar al-Bashir, claimed the CIA, America's intelligence agency, and "Israel's" Mossad were behind the Takfiri militant groups Boko Haram and "ISIL".

Omar al-Bashir spoke after "ISIL" released a video purporting to show the beheading of 21 Coptic Christians in Libya, an act that prompted Egypt to respond with air strikes avenging the massacre.

Al-Bashir stated, "I said CIA and the Mossad stand behind these organizations; there is no Muslim who would carry out such acts."

Boko Haram abducted 300 girls from a school in Nigeria last year and recently claimed responsibility for the massacre in the north-east Nigerian town of Baga, warning in the video that the killings were "just the tip of the iceberg".

Furthermore, "ISIL" militants had killed thousands during their bloody insurgency across Syria and Iraq.

He also cautioned against taking violent measures to fight militants, claiming it could lead to an even more severe extremist response.

"Our policy has been largely successful, after we arrest these young people we bring a group of young scholars to engage in dialogue with them about their thoughts, and we succeed to bring a lot of them back from their radical ideas," he declared.

In January, Melih Gokcek, the mayor of the Turkish city Ankara, claimed Mossad was involved in the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris, committed by Takfiri militants.
Explaining his theory, Gokcek suggested the Zionist government was behind the mass shooting because it wanted to "boost enmity towards Islam".

The wide-ranging discussion also saw the President challenge a report by Human Rights Watch claiming Sudanese troops had assaulted more than 200 women and girls on the north Darfur town of Tabit.

He dismissed the report as "a radio news item from Radio Dabanga which is hostile to us," and "opposition-run and "Israeli" funded".

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team