[Iraq Sun] Suspected 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 have kidnapped two teenaged children of one of Cameroon's most influential Moslem spiritual leaders.
The abduction occurred in the town of Limani, on the border with Nigeria's Borno state, which is the home base of the Islamist group.
Cameroon's State Radio announced that 10 heavily gunnies crossed over from neighboring Nigeria's Borno State, and ransacked the home of Bieshair Mohaman, the traditional ruler of Limani.
The Moslem spiritual leader was not home at the time of the attack. But the assailants left with two of the holy man's sons, Bieshair Hashimir and Bieshair Cavaye Yegue, both teenage students at the Government Bilingual High School in Limani.
Eyewitnesses said the assailants expressed displeasure with the holy man because he had refused to cooperate with them, and they accused him of giving information concerning their activities to Cameroon's military.
A schoolmate of the teenagers, who was on holiday in Yaounde, said the attacks prove Cameroonians in the north of the country are not safe from Boko Haram.
"What the Boko Haram are doing is not good," Oumarou Ahmadou Mua said. "I feel very bad. I am asking the government to reinforce security, to do something very fast. If not, I think the Boko Haram will kidnap many more children. They [the government] have to do something."Cameroonians have called on their government to make sure the kidnappers return these latest victims.
A government spokesperson urged all Cameroonians to cooperate with the military in the search for the children.
"I call on you fellow citizens, be it elite, traditional rulers, peasants, cycle of violence drivers, taxi drivers," said Issa Tchiroma Bakari, "to watch out and accompany our administrative authorities and defense forces in bringing them the collaboration they need in terms of information, intelligence or denunciation and help them to successfully conduct the mission assigned them."