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Talks. dempsey dempsey s visit begins as the new war on terror. hundreds of troops launching ground and air attacks against boko haram in northeastern nigeria. the offensive begins one day after boko haram pledged allegiance to isis in the audio message purportedly recorded by the group s leader. i want to bring in nima live in london with the latest. reporter: good morning, christine. if this is true it breaks isis out of the policy of containment that the u.s. and coalition allys have been working hard to impose. trying to limit the group s influence and activity to iraq and syria. boko haram really in a lot of ways is the isis equivalent. the isis equal in terms of territory control and terms of just brand name recognition really in africa. for a group of that stature to assume itself and pledge allegiance to isis is a big ....