[VOA News] The Nigerian military says Islamist gunnies raided a remote northeastern town Tuesday, leaving 55 people dead, including police, prison officials and civilians.Army front man Sagir Musa blamed the pre-dawn attack on al-Qaeda-linked 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...
Death Eaters, and said the strike targeted the town of Bama, a remote settlement near the borders of Cameroon and Chad.
Musa said that gunnies freed more than 100 prisoners and that military barracks and government buildings were burned to the ground during the nearly five-hour assault.
Boko Haram, which is seeking to carve out an Islamist state in northern Nigeria, has also been linked to an attack in April on the nearby Lake Chad fishing village of Baga.
Nearly 200 people were killed in the Baga attack, prompting Nigerian President
Goodluck Jonathan... 14th President of Nigeria. He was Governor of Bayelsa State from 9 December 2005 to 28 May 2007, and was sworn in as Vice President on 29 May 2007. Jonathan is a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). He is a lover of nifty hats, which makes him easily recognizable unless someone else in the room is wearing a neat chapeau...
to order a full scale probe to determine what, if any, role the military played in the deaths.