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Kabiru Sokoto, the Boko Haram operative who planned the Dec. 25 bombing at a church outside of Abuja that killed 38 people, escaped custody. Sokoto, who was arrested at a governor’s compound, was freed as he was being transferred to a new prison.

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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