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| Nigerian troops rescue 1,880 civilians from Boko Haram in one week |
| 2016-12-22 |
| [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Nigerian troops have rescued 1,880 civilians from a 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... redoubt in the restive northeast in the past week and tossed in the calaboose Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! hundreds of Death Eaters, a military commander said on Wednesday. The Sambisa forest, covering about 1,300 square kilometres (500 square miles), is a stronghold of the notorious jihadist group, who kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls in 2014. "During our operations in the period 14-21 December 2016, a total of 1,880 civilians were rescued from Boko Haram enclaves," Major-general Leo Irabor said in a statement after a news conference in the northeastern city of Maiduguri on Wednesday. Sambisa forest, covering an area of about 1,300 square kilometres (500 square miles), is a stronghold of the Boko Haram islamists Irabor added: "564 Boko Haram He said several Boko Haram fighters were killed and a cache of arms and ammunitions was discovered in the operation, part of a military campaign launched last year to clear the area of the jihadists. Hundreds of civilians, including women and kiddies, have also been freed in neighbouring 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... , said Irabor. Eight jihadist suspects were subsequently identified among them and taken into custody. |
| Posted by:Fred |