Unfortunately, the State Department did not want to designate Boko Haram as a Foreign Terrorist Organization until 14 months after the FBI and other government organizations made their plea to designate the group.
Ted Poe criticizes the delay in designating Boko Haram as a terrorist organization.
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I think the country is better because of your leadership over the last 6 years.
I would just hope that we would, our Government, the United States Government, would designate these two organizations as terrorist groups, proxies of Iran.
I think they are not doing their job to fight terrorism because the terrorists come in from Pakistan into Afghanistan.
The threat of terrorism remains a deadly challenge for us and our allies around the globe.
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