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| Chad sends 2,000 troops to Niger for counterattack on Boko Haram |
| 2016-06-09 |
| [DAILYMAIL.CO.UK] Chad has sent 2,000 troops to Niger to prepare a counterattack 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... after the Death Eater group seized a Nigerien town, two senior military sources said on Wednesday. The sources, one at Chadian military command in N'Djamena and another in the Lake Chad region where Boko Haram operates, told Rooters the troops arrived on Tuesday and were advancing on Bosso, a town near Lake Chad that has been the scene of festivities in recent days. Boko Haram killed 30 soldiers and forced 50,000 people to flee when it took Bosso on Friday, its deadliest raid in Niger in over a year. "About 2,000 soldiers with tanks went into Niger yesterday. They should link up with the Nigerien forces in Diffa and advance on Bosso," said one of the Chadian military sources. A security source in Niger confirmed that about 2,000 troops were heading to Bosso on Wednesday. Clashes have continued in Bosso in recent days. Niger troops briefly regained control of Bosso on Saturday, according to the defense ministry, but the murderous Moslems retook it on Sunday, Bosso Mayor Mamadou Bako said. Boko Haram has been trying to establish an Islamic state adhering to strict Sharia, Islamic law, in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... since 2009. About 2.1 million people have been displaced and thousands killed during the insurgency. Chad's intervention comes after Niger President Mahamadou Issoufou flew to Chad for talks with President Idriss Deby on Tuesday. |
| Posted by:Fred |