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Boko Haram Turns into Poll Issue in Nigeria after Heavy Troop Losses
[An Nahar] Nigeria's main opposition party has called the government to account for its record on tackling 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..., after at least 44 soldiers were killed at the weekend. Dozens more were suspected to have bit the dust in the attack on the base in Metele village, in Borno state near the border with Niger, although numbers have not been confirmed. President Muhammadu Buhari made defeating the Islamist murderous Moslems a key plank of his 2015 election campaign and has said the jihadists were "technically defeated". But that claim has been called into question by repeated attacks, including suicide kabooms and raids targeting civilians and the military. Neither the government nor the military has commented on the latest deaths, which were claimed by the IS-backed Boko Haram faction, the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... West Africa Province (ISWAP). But Buhari's main challenger at next February's election, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), sent a condolence message to the families of those who were killed. He was also reported as saying on Friday that the losses were "a clear sign that our troops need to be better funded and better equipped". On Thursday night, Senate leader Bukola Saraki, a Buhari critic who defected from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to the PDP earlier this year, also spoke out about the deaths. Posted by: Fred 2018-11-24 |
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