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Chris Smith: If I could, if you could answer, how big is Boko Haram? Where are they getting their weapons? Are the IEDs coming from…

On the recordJuly 9, 2012
If I could, if you could answer, how big is Boko Haram? Where are they getting their weapons? Are the IEDs coming from Iran, for example?
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Chris Smith
Republican · New Jersey

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Smith questions the scale and sources of Boko Haram's weaponry.

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