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| 13 Killed in Boko Haram Attack in Niger Village |
| 2015-10-29 |
| [AnNahar] Thirteen people were killed and three injured in an attack on a village in south-east Niger allegedly carried out by 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... bad boys, local officials said Wednesday. "Thirteen people were executed and three others suffered gunshot wounds in an attack by Boko Haram Tuesday evening in Ala village," Malam Ligari, a local official in the Diffa region, which has been repeatedly attacked by the jihadists, told AFP. "This was a fast operation," conducted between "8:00 and 10:00 pm (19:00 and 21:00 GMT)," Ligari said, adding that the assailants came on foot after crossing the Yobe river -- which forms a natural border between Niger and Nigeria in the area -- by canoe. "Boko Haram bully boyz came in number. They burned cars, houses, stores," the private radio station Anfani reported. Since February, the Diffa region has suffered several attacks blamed on the Nigeria-based Islamist radicals, including one in June in which 38 people were killed, including 10 children. On Tuesday, Niger's parliament voted to extend for another three months the state of emergency declared in February in the region. "The biggest problem we have is controlling the border with Nigeria," Niger's Interior Minister Hassoumi Massaoudou told deputies. 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... , Chad and Niger have formed a military alliance with Nigeria and Benin to battle the bad boys, who this year declared allegiance to 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.... . The Islamists' grip on the region has suffered as a result of offensives launched by local armies. But the group maintains strongholds in remote parts of north-east Nigeria, the Mandara mountains on the Nigeria-Cameroon border and the islands of Lake Chad. |
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