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Nigeria Military Says Foils Boko Haram Attack
 [ALMANAR.LB] Nigeria's troops have a foiled a planned 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... attack on a camp of displaced people in the northeastern town of Dikwa, previously targeted by the bully boys, the military said. "From all indications, the holy warriors aimed at causing havoc at the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp located at Dikwa," army front man Colonel Sani Usman said in a statement late Wednesday. He said security forces "decisively dealt with the terrorists", killing 26 of the bad boy Lions of Islam and seizing weapons and ammunition. One soldier and a local vigilante assisting the military in the fight against Boko Haram were killed, he said. Usman said three soldiers and four IDPs were maimed in the encounter, adding that anti-aircraft guns, assault rifles and explosives were among the weaponry recovered. "The casualties have since been evacuated while the troops have been pursuing those holy warriors that escaped with gunshot wounds," he said. Boko Haram, which has increasingly used suicide and kabooms as the military pushes them out of territories it once controlled, has previously hit Dikwa, some 90 kilometers (50 miles) from Maiduguri, the birthplace of the sect. Posted by: Fred 2016-02-26 |
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