Ten Nigerian generals guilty of abetting Islamist Boko Haram

Ten generals and five other senior military officers were found guilty in courts-martial of providing arms and information to help Boko Haram extremists attack military tagets, a leading Nigerian newspaper reported Tuesday. Nigerian politicians and officers have been warning for months that some senior officers were helping the Islamic terrorists who abducted hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls. Some rank-and-file solders were said to fight alongside Boko Haram and then returning to army camps.

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