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5 Boko Haram leaders arrested; dozens of captives freed
[BIGSTORY.AP.ORG] YAOUNDE, Cameroon The multinational forces fighting the Islamic forces of Evil of 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... have tossed in the clink ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... five of the group's leaders and freed dozens of captive women and kiddies, 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... 's government announced Saturday. The raids targeting Boko Haram bases in the northern Madawaya forest earlier this month freed 28 children and at least 18 women, government front man Issa Tchiroma said. Boko Haram had set up camp in the forest after fleeing another military operation in neighboring Nigeria and had been training captive maidens of tender years and women as jacket wallahs, he said. The news came as French President Francois Hollande ...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist... joined several West African leaders at a summit in Abuja, the Nigerian capital, where they discussed progress in the fight against Boko Haram and how to resolve the humanitarian crisis it has created. The hard boy group has forced more than 2 million people to flee their homes, some across borders. "We have to make sure they can get back to their homes," Hollande said after meeting with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari before the summit, noting the need for "the right development policies." Marginalization and corruption has allowed the Islamic forces of Evil to flourish in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... Both leaders stressed the success of a multinational force of Nigeria and its neighbors -- helped by training, intelligence and information-sharing by La Belle France, Britannia and the United States -- that has recaptured territory where Boko Haram had declared an Islamic caliphate. British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond was at the summit along with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken. "Now our main problem is the rehabilitation of infrastructure destroyed -- educational, health, bridges blown, etc," Buhari said. But many refugees say they will not return home until it is safe and there are doubts Nigeria's military can secure the vast rural areas where Boko Haram now roams. The forces of Evil have turned to using suicide bombers, often women and girls, to hit soft targets like mosques and marketplaces. The nearly 7-year insurgency, which has spread beyond Nigeria's borders, has killed at least 20,000 people, according to Posted by: Fred 2016-05-15 |
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