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A few days ago, Nigeria’s State Security Service reported arresting ten people with links to al-Qaeda and the Taliban. The Sultan of the northern Nigerian state of Sokoto is sure there must be some mistake. He told a Washington, DC, audience yesterday that neither al-Qaeda nor the Taliban is present in his country.
Neither the Al-Qaeda group nor the Taliban movement exist in Nigeria and there was no planned terrorist attack in the country, Sultan of Sokoto Alhaji Muhammadu Sa'ad Abubakar said in Washington, D.C yesterday.Speaking to a multi-racial audience at the Institute of Peace in the American capital, the Sultan said, "There is no Al-Qaeda cell or Taliban in Nigeria." He said if there was any, he would have known about it through the village and district heads as well as other Nigerian emirs.
Of course! If al-Qaeda or Taliban were present, or a terrorist attack planned, surely someone would have told him.
A member of the Sultan’s entourage backed up his boss.
He said the incident attributed to Al-Qaeda or Taliban in the North was probably the handiwork of some few or misinformed extremists who probably do not properly understand the Arabic translation of the word Taliban and Al-Qaeda.
If you can’t "properly understand" the word in its original language, you can’t belong to the club.
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