The President of Sudan, Omar al-Bashir, has said that United States intelligence organisation, the CIA and Israel’s Mossad are behind Boko Haram and Islamic States militants.
Omar al-Bashir was speaking exclusively to euronews in the week that ISIS released a video purporting to show the execution of 21 Egyptian citizens, an act that spurred Egypt into launching airstrikes against ISIS targets in neighbouring Libya.
“I said CIA and the Mossad stand behind these organisations. There is no Muslim who would carry out such acts," al-Bashir said.
However, he warned that the fight against jihadist extremism must engage militants on an ideological level, and not solely concentrate on military action against them.
The Sudanese leader cautioned that simply using violence against young radicals who fight with organisations like ISIS and al-Qaeda could lead to even more extremism.
“Our policy has been largely succesful, 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," al-Bashir said.
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