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Boko Haram Jihadists Torch 50 Homes, Kill Four People in Niger
[AnNahar] 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... activists raided a border village in Niger, killing four people and torching some 50 homes, a local official said on Monday. Two other people were maimed in the assault on Saturday evening, said Fougou Boukar, an official from the restive Diffa region, adding that the attackers then fled to Nigeria. "There has been enormous damage with about 50 houses burnt," he told state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe? , putting the number of assailants at about 10. "The Boko Haram members were armed with Kalashnikovs and came across the Komadougou Yobe" river that divides Niger and Nigeria, Boukar said. State television showed hundreds of distressed villagers, praying in memory of the victims. Some of them showed scores of empty cartridges they had gathered after the attack. Boko Haram, the radical Sunni jihadists who want to create a hardline Islamic state in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... , have spread their attacks to neighboring Niger, Chad and 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... Their six-year insurgency has left at least 17,000 people dead and made more than 2.6 million homeless. In Niger's Diffa region alone, hundreds of people have died in Boko Haram raids and suicide kabooms since February. Last week, Boko Haram killed 18 people and injured 11 others during a raid in the village of Wogom located near the southeastern town of Bosso. Three of the victims, including the local imam, had their throats slit. The United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... has registered around 50 attacks and festivities between Islamist fighters and Niger troops since February. Posted by: trailing wife 2015-12-02 |
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