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Boko Haram killed five people in attacks on police stations in Maiduguri. Ibrahim Birkuti, a Wahhabi cleric who has been critical of Boko Haram for killing security personnel and political officials, was gunned down in the town of Bui in Borno state. Boko Haram is suspected of assassinating the cleric.

Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.

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