WASHINGTON, Dec 15 (Reuters) - The United States on Tuesday
condemned "in the strongest terms" the abduction of more than
300 schoolboys from their school in northwestern Nigeria and was
investigating Boko Haram's claim of responsibility, a
spokesperson for the State Department said.
A man identifying himself as the leader of Nigeria's Boko
Haram, whose name means "Western education is forbidden" in the
local Hausa language, said the Islamist group was behind the
kidnapping which occurred on Friday at a secondary school in
Nigeria's state of Katsina.