The 28-minute message, which cannot be independently authenticated by CNN, was posted online by ISIS supporters.
The message says that the caliphate, or Islamic State, has expanded to western Africa and congratulated "our jihadi brothers" there.
The spokesman, Abu Mohammed al Adnani, encourages people to join fighters in Africa if they cannot make it to Iraq or Syria.
Boko Haram's leader, Abubakar Shekau, announced in an audio message last week that the Islamist terror group was going to ally with ISIS.
Jacob Zenn, a terror expert who lives in Nigeria, told CNN on Saturday the alliance would make sense for both groups.
Now I know what a lot of you guys are probably thinking. This is trouble. ISIS teaming up with these nutjobs in Africa is bad news for everyone. It means they are moving, it means they are expanding, so the fuck what? This doesn't change a thing about anything. One small psychotic terrorist organization teaming up with another small psychotic terrorist organization means barely anything in the grand scheme of things. ISIS is still priority one. They publicized the alliance as an intimidation tactic and instead ended up giving us a new hunting ground.
Seriously though, what is the deal with the public announcement of this alliance? Am I the only one who thinks that seems like a bush league move for an international terrorist organization. Kinda desperate really. Oh look at me I'm ISIS and I'm making alliances with a group whose name translated into english means "Western Education is sin." That's cool. Western education might be sin, but it's also a really big part of why western culture has things like running water, electricity and the internet. Not just a few of us either, I'm talking like everyone.
I'm sorry but I just can't take a group seriously when they go to war in flip flops.
PS - It's probably just dirt but all I could think about when I looked at their sandals/feet was Ashy Larry. That racist? LMK.
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