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Africa Subsaharan
Cameroon: Troops free 900 hostages held by Boko Haram
2015-12-03
[WASHINGTONPOST] A multinational force freed 900 hostages held by Nigeria's 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...
Lion of Islams, killed more than 100 fighters and tossed in the calaboose
Please don't kill me!
100 others last week, 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...
's government front man said Wednesday.

Hostages from Cameroon, Nigeria and Chad were held in several camps and were being trained as jacket wallahs, fighters and thieves, said Issa Tchiroma Bakary. Joint forces from Cameroon, Nigeria, Chad and Benin carried out the sweep Nov. 27 to Nov. 29, he said.

Troops also arrested 100 fighters, including a group leader, from Boko Haram's strongholds in the Sambisa Forest, which straddles northeastern Nigeria and Cameroon, and in the Lake Chad area, Bakary said.

The freed are being reunited with their families, he said. Trauma care is available for those who need it, including maidens of tender years and women who might have been used as sex slaves, he said.

Nigerian troops have rescued hundreds of Boko Haram captives this year but none of the 219 girls kidnapped from a school in Chibok town. Their mass abduction in April 2014 sparked international outrage against the bandidos gunnies and Nigeria's government for failing to rescue them.

Boko Haram's 6-year-old Islamic uprising has killed an estimated 20,000 people and driven 2.3 million from their homes, according to Amnesia Amnesty International and the United Nations
...a formerly good idea gone bad...
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