Just last year, over 200 Nigerian girls were kidnapped from their school by the radical Islamist group Boko Haram.
There are fears of a major new Islamist insurrection, possibly inspired by the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
Islamist brigades including Suqur al-Sham, a 9,000-strong militia, are openly breaking with Western-favored rebel factions.
And in Diyarbakır Kurdish Hizbullah, a militant Islamist group that in the 1990s battled the PKK, made a re-appearance.
Americans first create an Islamist radical movement, then they fight it.
These men are not given to idle words, and they are just one camp in the Islamist radical movement.