... 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...murderous Moslems in different parts of the Lake Chad region near 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...
Tuesday’s announcement comes more than a week after Boko Haram kidnapped 110 girls from their school in Dapchi in Yobe state. The bully boy group has kidnapped thousands of people over the years.
Operation front man Col. Onyema Nwachukwu says soldiers killed at least 35 Boko Haram fighters during the raids on Monday in the northern fringes of the Lake Chad islands and the Sambisa region.
He says troops also seized a large arms cache.
Nigeria’s government’s is under growing public pressure to respond to the Dapchi mass abduction and prove its repeated claims that Boko Haram has been defeated.