Video: "We Planned The Chibok Abductions 3 Months Before It Happened" - Boko Haram Member As He Reveals Terrorist Group Is Planning More Mass Abductions

A member of the group spoke with CBS News in an interview. He calls himself Saleh Abubakar and told  CBS News he's been a member of Boko Haram for seven years. He'd been reluctant to talk as Boko Haram has been declared a terrorist group in Nigeria. "We go to their school and attack some of soldiers and policemen," he said. 

But when asked why his group decided to target schoolgirls, Abubakar abruptly ended the interview, asking for a safer, indoor location. 

He told CBS News he'd seen the girls three weeks ago, and they were being well cared for.
"Some of them will complain of headache; we have medicine," he said, when asked if any of the girls were sick. "We have everything in the place where we keep them."

Asked if any had been sold into marriage, he replied, "We do not marry them."
He said the girls had converted to Islam willingly, he claimed. As a result, they'd been spared being sold into slavery, as the group's leader had threatened.

"We didn't make them convert to Islam by force, just by preaching, you understand," he said. When pressed on whether abducting the girls and forcing them to convert to Islam is the same as forcing them, he said, "As I tell you, we are not forcing anyone to accept Islam. We are just preaching to them." 

He said the girls would be held captive until the Nigerian government released Boko Haram fighters from prison.