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Boko Haram captures more Nigerian towns
 [Iran Press TV] Boko Haram... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... gunnies have taken control of more Nigerian towns as they press ahead with their attacks in the African country. A Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... ian police source said on Tuesday that Boko Haram gunnies moved into the Nigerian town of Ashigashyia overnight Monday, where they killed three people in front of a church, after soldiers sent there fled to take refuge across the border in nearby Cameroon. Nearly 500 Nigerian soldiers beat feet from the border towns of Ashigashyia and Kerawa over the weekend to take refuge from Boko Haram Takfiris on Cameroonian territory. On Monday, the Nigerian army dismissed reports that the soldiers had fled, claiming that it was a "tactical maneuver" as they pursued the turbans. However, there's more than one way to skin a cat... the officials in Cameroon said the troops fought a rearguard battle in the town of Gamboru Ngala before pulling out as they were outnumbered. Boko Haram gunnies also stormed Gamboru Ngala early on Monday and by evening had taken over the cop shoppe, a military barracks and vocational training center, where they had based themselves, according to locals. According to residents, the gunnies now control at least the town of Buni Yadi in Yobe state as well as Gwoza and Gamboru Ngala in neighboring Borno state. In the northeastern state of Adamawa, which has been under a state of emergency along with Borno and Yobe states since May last year, local government officials said scores of gunnies attacked the town of Madagali on Saturday, forcing out soldiers and taking over government buildings. Posted by: Fred 2014-08-27 |
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