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At least 17 Niger soldiers killed in ambush: Government spokesman
[AlAhram] Gunmen killed at least 17 Nigerien troops in an ambush near the Malian border, where several jihadist groups are active, and another 11 soldiers are missing, a government front man said on Wednesday.The attack on Tuesday occurred near the town of Tongo Tongo, where fighters from an 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.... affiliate killed four U.S. special forces and four Nigerien soldiers in an ambush in October 2017, front man Abdourahamane Zakaria told Rooters. Zakaria did not identify the perpetrators of the attack, which is one of the deadliest against the military in Niger’s west in recent years. Jihadists, including affiliates of al Qaeda and Islamic State, have stepped up attacks on military and civilian targets across West Africa’s Sahel region ... North Africa's answer to the Pak tribal areas... this year, particularly along the mostly non-existent borders between Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other... Niger also faces a threat in its southeast from 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...and a splinter group affiliated with Islamic State, which are both based in Nigeria but frequently strike in neighbouring 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... . Posted by: trailing wife 2019-05-16 |
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