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Mississippi-based case nets 16 arrests on fraud

By JEFF AMY - Associated Press

In this photo taken on Monday, May 19, 2014. Martha Mark, the mother of kidnapped school girl Monica Mark cries as she display her photo, in the family house, in Chibok, Nigeria. More than 200 schoolgirls were kidnapped from a school in Chibok in Nigeria's north-eastern state of Borno on April 14. Boko Haram claimed responsibility for the act. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Hill to hear from survivor of Boko Haram terror

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Kansas couple watches as Nigerian events unfold

By JOHN GREEN - Associated Press

A Nigerian, resident in Spain protests outside the Nigerian embassy in Madrid, Spain, Friday, May 16, 2014 in support of the kidnapped school girls in Abuja, Nigeria. Boko Haram insurgents on April 15 abducted more than 300 students from the Chibok Government Girls Secondary School. Police say 53 managed to escape and 276 remain in captivity. (AP Photo/Paul White)

Summit combats Boko Haram funds, arms, training

By LORI HINNANT and SYLVIE CORBET - Associated Press

Kansas couple watches as Nigerian events unfold

By JOHN GREEN - Associated Press

Women attend a demonstration calling on the government to rescue the kidnapped schoolgirls of the Chibok secondary school, in Abuja, Nigeria, Tuesday, May 13, 2014. A Nigerian government official said "all options are open" in efforts to rescue almost 300 abducted schoolgirls from their captors as US reconnaissance aircraft started flying over this West African country in a search effort. Boko Haram, the militant group that kidnapped the girls last month from a school in Borno state, had released a video yesterday purporting to show some of the girls. A civic leader said representatives of the missing girls' families were set to view the video as a group later today to see if some of the girls can be identified. (AP Photo / Sunday Alamba)

Pentagon adds drone in search for schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this Thursday, May 8, 2014, file photo, Nigeria President Goodluck Jonathan speaks during the World Economic Forum on Africa in Abuja, Nigeria. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba, File)

Nigeria leader nixes visit where girls kidnapped

By Haruna Umar and Michelle Faul - Associated Press

US says Boko Haram now ‘top priority’

By MATTHEW LEE and BRADLEY KLAPPER - Associated Press

** FILE ** This file photo taken from video by Nigeria's Boko Haram terrorist network, Monday, May 12, 2014, shows the missing girls alleged to be abducted April 14, from the northeastern town of Chibok. (AP Photo/File)

Nigeria vigilantes kill scores of Islamic militants

By Haruna Umar and Adamu Adamu - Associated Press

Christians pray during a service to support the release of kidnapped girls in Nigeria, at a church in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, May 14, 2014. Boko Haram, the militant group that kidnapped nearly 300 schoolgirls in Nigeria, said the girls will only be freed after the government releases jailed militants. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Angry Nigerian soldiers fire on senior officer

By HARUNA UMAR and ADAMU ADAMU - Associated Press

A woman holds a sign during a rally near the Nigerian embassy to raise to show support for the release of the kidnapped girls in Nigeria in Paris, Monday, May 12, 2014. A French official says Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has agreed to attend a security summit on Saturday in Paris to focus on the Boko Haram terrorist network, which abducted more than 300 schoolgirls in Nigeria last month. Signs center and left read, save the Nigerian schoolgirls. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Nigeria will not negotiate with Boko Haram, U.K. official says

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

People attend a demonstration calling on the government to rescue the kidnapped schoolgirls of the Chibok secondary school, in Abuja, Nigeria, Tuesday, May 13, 2014. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

White House: No special forces to Nigeria ‘at this time’

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

In this undated combination photo made of images provided by Nneka and Chiney Ogwumike, WNBA basketball sisters Nneka, right, and Chiney Ogwumike hold signs in reference to the recent mass kidnappings in Nigeria, their parents' homeland. The pair, who became only the second set of siblings to be drafted first in one of the major sports leagues, have already begun plans to work with the US Fund for UNICEF. They want to maximize their impact and help Nigeria's education and child protection programs. (AP Photo/Nneka and Chiney Ogwumike)

Ogwumike sisters affected by Nigerian kidnappings

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

** FILE ** A U.S. Special Operations Forces service member along with 3rd Bataillon d'Intervention Rapide or Rapid Intervention Battalion (BIR) soldiers demonstrate the proper way to pass hallways and intersections during Close Quarter Battle training during Exercise Silent Warrior 2013 in Bamenda, Cameroon Jan. 17, 2013. (Image: Africom.mil, Air Force Master Sgt. Larry W. Carpenter Jr.)

U.S. Special Forces heading to Nigeria, training troops to ‘take the fight to Boko Haram’

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Brig. Gen. Chris Olukolade, Nigeria's top military spokesman, speaks during a press conference on the abducted school girls in Abuja, Nigeria, Monday, May 12, 2014. A Nigerian Islamic extremist leader says nearly 300 abducted schoolgirls will not be seen again until the government frees his detained fighters. A new video from Nigeria's homegrown Boko Haram terrorist network received Monday purports to show some of the girls and young women chanting Quranic verses in Arabic. The barefoot girls look frightened and sad and sit huddled together wearing gray Muslim veils. Some Christians among them say they have converted to Islam. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

US flying aircraft over Nigeria in hunt for girls

By BASHIR ADIGUN - Associated Press

FILE - In a Thursday, May 8, 2014 file photo, South Africans protest in solidarity against the abduction three weeks ago of hundreds of schoolgirls in Nigeria by the Muslim extremist group Boko Haram and what protesters said was the failure of the Nigerian government and international community to rescue them, during a march to the Nigerian Consulate in Johannesburg, South Africa. More than three weeks after Islamic extremists abducted the girls, world outrage is galvanizing Twitter and other social-media sites. But observers question whether the burst of online interest will last and whether it can ever elevate the case from a trending topic to a mandate for action. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

HUMPHRIES: Lefty come lately: Boko Haram is the new celebrity cause

By Rusty Humphries

In this Twitter photo, first lady Michelle Obama pleads for the safe return of more than 200 girls kidnapped by terrorists in Nigeria.

EDITORIAL: Obama’s diplomacy by Twitter

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

In this photo taken from video by Nigeria's Boko Haram terrorist network, Monday May 12, 2014 shows the alleged missing girls abducted from the northeastern town of Chibok. The new video purports to show dozens of abducted schoolgirls, covered in jihab and praying in Arabic. It is the first public sight of the girls since more than 300 were kidnapped from a northeastern school the night of April 14 exactly four weeks ago. (AP Photo)

Boko Haram demands release of fighters for girls

By MICHELLE FAUL and SUNDAY ALAMBA - Associated Press