Boko Haram Leader Vows To Continue Violence

Abubakar Shekau has a $7.3m bounty on his head

The leader of Boko Haram,an Islamic extremist group in Nigeria has said violent insurgency will continue in the country because Allah has said Muslims must decapitate and mutilate.
In a video released on Saturday, Abubakar Shekau claimed responsibility for a December 20 attack on a tank battalion barracks.
In it, he claimed his men - members of the al Qaeda-linked Boko Haram -  would have eaten their enemies, but Allah forbids cannibalism.
Witnesses said insurgents put soldiers to flight and set the complex ablaze, before they were driven off by fighter aircraft.
Shekau warned Christians not to go to churches during December, although Christmas passed in Nigeria without any of the feared terrorist attacks.
Five churches were bombed on Christmas Day in 2011, killing dozens of people.
Shekau also ridiculed bounties placed on his head. There is a $7million  bounty from the US and a N50 million  ($312,500)  figure from Nigeria.
Earlier this year the Nigerian military had said intelligence suggested Shekau may have been killed. But a video which emerged in September, purporting to be of him, made reference to recent events.