Boko Haram along with 16 others in exchange for a ransom of $3.15 million. As well as extortion from local residents, Boko Haram has claimed to extort money from local state governments. A spokesman of Boko Haram claimed that Kano state governor Ibrahim Shekarau and Bauchi state governor Isa Yuguda had paid them monthly. It has long been alleged that Boko Haram had a relationship with al-Qaeda. In 2011, letters from Boko Haram were reportedly found in bin Laden's compound. Three weeks after the 2009 Boko Haram uprising began, al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb expressed sympathy for Boko Haram. Speaking by phone
Arnfinn Haram Arnfinn Haram Arnfinn Andreas Haram O.P. (September 25, 1948 - 10, June 2012) was a Norwegian Dominican brother, social debater and nonfiction author, born in Ålesund, raising in Haram municipality in Sunnmøre, and dying in Oslo. Haram was educated at the Faculty of Theology in Oslo and became a priest in the Norwegian Church in Loddefjord and Laksevåg, both Bergen's boroughs. However in 1998 Haram converted to the Latin Church. He made his eternal vows in 2002 and became a Catholic priest in 2003. Haram studied at Angelicum in Rome, where he became a licentiate in theology in 2008 at