New video has emerged of of the terrorist group Boko Haram apparently in control of an unidentified town in Nigeria, parading a rather expensive-looking heavily-armored vehicle down the street while local cheer them on.

There’s more than a small chance that the video footage obtained by the Agence France-Presse news agency was staged for propaganda purposes.  Along with the tank, it shows the ubiquitous pick-up trucks converted into rolling machine gun turrets. No women or girls are seen at any point in the video.  One person waves the black standard of Islamic State, the other screwball fundamentalist group that declared as Islamic caliphate in the territory it controls thousands of kilometers away.  The camera then moved inside to show Boko Haram 's leader Abubakar Shekau preaching to locals.

Boko Haram has released videos in the past that display its guns, trucks, and other hardware it says was captured from the Nigerian military.  Those claims have not been confirmed by Abuja; however, the Nigerian government has been less than forthcoming and often outright dishonest about any progress the military might be making against the terrorists. 

Most recently, the government claimed that a deal was in the works to free the more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped from their boarding school in Chibok town earlier this year.  That turned out to be bunk.  It turns out the person the government had been negotiating with has no credibility with Boko Haram.