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Niger Says Repelled Attack on Prison where 'Terrorists' Held
[AnNahar] Armed forces in Niger repelled a pre-dawn attack Monday on a prison where "terrorists", notably from neighboring Mali, are being held, the country's interior minister said.Mohammed Bazoum said the prison in Koutoukale, about 50 kilometers (30 miles) northwest of the capital Niamey, came under attack at 4 am (0300 GMT). "The enemy was repelled, leaving behind several dead wearing boom belts," he said on social media. The attack follows the kidnapping of a U.S. aid worker Friday, the first American captured in the west African nation. The prison in Koutoukale is considered to be Niger's most secure jail, holding the country's most dangerous detainees, and notably jihadists from groups active in the Sahel desert area and from the Nigeria-based 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... Islamist group. "Heavily armed holy warriors again attacked this high security prison. They were unable to get near the jail because a shootout broke out with soldiers who are guarding it," a source in the security services told AFP. On October 30, 2014, an gang set several detainees free when they attacked a jail at Ouallam, 100 kilometers north of Niamey. The civilian prison in the capital itself was attacked in June 2013 by an gang, leaving at least two warders dead. The assailants made off with 22 "terrorist" prisoners, including Boko Haram fighters. They also freed a high-profile criminal from Mali, Cheibane Ould Hama, who had been convicted of the murders of four Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... n nationals near Niger's border with Mali, as well as killing an American in Niamey in 2000. Posted by: trailing wife 2016-10-18 |
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