May 4, 2014.

Nigerian Insurgency Leader Says He Has Taken Abducted Girls as Slaves

"I remember that until only a week before I was arrested, we were not at war with Eastasia at all. We were in alliance with them. The war was against Eurasia. That had lasted for four years. Before that----"

The leader of Nigeria's Boko Haram insurgency said in a video message on Monday that he had taken as slaves more than 200 abducted teenage girls, as foreign governments joined in the hunt for the missing students.

O’Brien stopped him with a movement of the hand.

In his first public claim of responsibility since his group kidnapped the students from a rural high school in Nigeria's northeast, Abubakar Shekau said he would sell the girls "because they are our slaves."

"Another example," he said. "Some years ago you had a very serious delusion indeed. You believed that three men, three one-time Party members named Jones, Aaronson, and Rutherford----men who were executed for treachery and sabotage after making the fullest possible confession ----were not guilty of the crimes they were charged with. You believed that you had seen unmistakable documentary evidence proving that their confessions were false. There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this."

The girls don't appear in the video, and their whereabouts aren't known.