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| One Killed in Boko Haram Attack on Nigeria Village |
| 2016-01-26 |
| [AnNahar] 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... Islamists killed a civilian and torched his house during a raid on a village in the northeastern Nigerian state of Yobe, a police front man said on Monday. Traveling in all-terrain vans, they raided Babban Gida village around 01:00 am (GMT) Sunday and fought a gunbattle with soldiers. The Death Eaters stole two police vehicles but were eventually driven out, Toyin Gbadegesin, Yobe state police front man told AFP. "The bully boyz initially rubbed out a man and burnt his thatched hut on the outskirts of the village," Gbadegesin said. "They attacked the cop shoppe where troops engaged them in a fight which forced them to retreat". Babban Gida, which lies 50 kilometers from the state capital Damaturu, has been repeatedly targeted by Boko Haram myrmidons, whose six-year insurgency has claimed over 17,000 lives and displaced 2.6 million from their homes. The Nigerian government claims Boko Haram had been "technically" defeated but despite a sustained military offensive the Islamist group still carries out sporadic raids on towns and villages in the northeast. The military operations have reclaimed swathes of territory seized by the Death Eaters in their quest to establish an Islamic caliphate, pushing Boko Haram out of its Sambisa forest stronghold to remote islets on Lake Chad straddling Nigeria and its three neighbors - 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... , Niger and Chad. Security analysts believe sporadic Boko Haram raids were mainly for food and petrol following disruptions of their supply routes by the military campaign. |
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