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| Nigeria's army says 3,000 people who fled Boko Haram return to hometown |
| 2016-12-28 |
| [AlAhram] More than 3,000 people in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... who were forced to flee the seven-year insurgency waged by Islamist forces of Evil have returned to their hometown following the reopening of major roads in the area, the army said on Tuesday. Damasak - in the northwest of Borno, the state worst hit by the forces of Evil - was taken over 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... in late 2014, when it controlled an area the size of Belgium in northeast Nigeria. The President Muhammadu Buhari said on Saturday that the army had taken back Boko Haram's main camp in the Sambisa forest. On Sunday, the government said it was reopening two roads between Borno's capital, Maiduguri, and the northern towns of Damasak and Baga. Army front man Sani Usman said more than 3,000 people used one of the roads to return to Damasak on Monday. Rooters was unable to independently verify his statement. "They were residents of Damasak displaced by the insurgency staying as refugees in the neighbouring Niger Republic and internally displaced people in Maiduguri," he said. Usman said the returnees went through military security checks when they arrived and were met by local government officials and community leaders. After the announcement that the Sambisa camp had been taken, the Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai, said the former game reserve would be used as a military training base to prevent the Security analysts say Boko Haram split this year with one faction led by Abubakar Shekau ... the lunatic leader of Boko Haram who has been reported dead at least eleven times, pledged his body and soul to ISIS, told his fighters to hang it up once or twice, and been fire by the Caliph and refused to step down ... operating from the Sambisa forest and the other, allied to 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.... (IS) Death Eater group and led by Abu Musab al-Barnawi, based in the Lake Chad region. |
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