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| Africa Subsaharan |
| Nigeria Army Says Offensive against Islamists Progressing |
| 2015-02-23 |
| [AnNahar] Nigeria's military said Sunday that the offensive against 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... was progressing, claiming soldiers had recovered stocks of arms abandoned by turbans fleeing the recaptured town of Baga. "The cordon and search as well as patrol of the localities continue while the offensive on holy warriors is progressing in other areas of the theater of the counter terrorist campaign," military front man General Chris Olukolade said in a statement. Troops engaged in cordon and search operations in Baga have continued to discover arms of various types and provenance that were dumped by fleeing turbans in houses and surrounding areas, the statement said. Many abandoned or destroyed cycle of violences have also been found, it said. The town, a fishing hub on the shore of Lake Chad in the far north of Borno state in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... , was retaken on Saturday morning. A soldier was stabbed and another was shot during a close quarter battle which ensued as troops caught up with fleeing terrorists, it added. Nigerian military claims to have recaptured the town of Baga from Boko Haram came more than a month after it was overrun in what is feared to be the worst massacre in the six-year insurgency that has claimed more than 13,000 lives. There was no independent corroboration of Baga returning to army control, as thousands of the town's residents fled after Boko Haram attacked on January 3. Hundreds of people, if not more, were killed in the following days. |
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