... 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...raid and suicide kaboom on a village in northeastern Nigeria, residents told AFP on Saturday
A male jacket wallah detonated his explosives among a group of residents sleeping in the open in Tungushe village in Borno state at about 12:15 am (2315 GMT Friday).
The blast was followed by indiscriminate gunfire from Boko Haram Islamist forces of Evil lurking in the dark, said Mustapha Muhammad, a civilian militia leader in the area.
"Five people have been killed and six others injured in the attack," Muhammad said by telephone from the village, which lies six kiometres (nearly four miles) north of the Borno state capital Maiduguri.
Tungushe resident Umara Kyari, who gave similar casualty toll, said the attackers torched eight thatched houses and three vehicles before stealing about 100 cows.
"Fortunately all the cows returned to the village," said Kyari. "I think the attackers are not used to herding cows and could not control them."
Boko Haram regularly uses suicide bombers, mostly women and maiden of tender yearss, to target mosques, schools, bus stations and military locations.
Its nine-year armed violence to establish a hardline Islamic state in remote northeastern Nigeria has killed more than 20,000 people.
Suicide attacks have increased in Borno state recently, prompting the military commander fighting the Islamist forces of Evil to offer a five-million-naira ($13,900) reward for information on bomb-making factories in the region.
On June 16, six maiden of tender yearss killed 43 people in suicide attacks in the town of Damboa, 80 kilometres outside Maiduguri.
On Wednesday, 15 people were maimed when two