Again, ISWAP Terrorists Clash With Boko Haram Rivals, Kill Many, Seize Weapons | Sahara Reporters https://t.co/OuhMsBZYV7 pic.twitter.com/DKm4WOqX9N
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In what appeared to be a continuation of their sustained inter-rivalry clash, the fighters of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
of West African Province (ISWAP) has attacked a convoy of Boko Haram
...Nigeerian Islamist group, formerly paying homage to al-Qaeda, then, when the money ran out, to the Islamic State, and headed by nutcase Abu Bakr Shekau. Once he exploded in a gunfight with ISWAP, many in the group surrendered to the govt and others went with their new overlords. The remainder are a shell of their former selves, stmbling glassy-eyed and lonely through the Sambisa Forest and the soothing waters of Lake Chad, asking themselves What is truth?, or maybe just
I wonder what's for dinner? I hope it's not rhinocerous again!...
, during which many of them were killed.
A counter-insurgency expert, Zagazola Makama, disclosed this in a series of tweets on Monday.
The rival groups have been attacking communities in the Northeast region since both camps fell apart over leadership issues.
The groups have also since been having festivities, and 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 fired by the Caliph and refused to step down. Last seen in 2017, sneaking into Cameroon while wearing a burka...
, leader of Boko Haram, was reportedly killed during one of such festivities in 2021.
According to Makama, the recent inter-rivalry clash occurred in Chillaria axis of Sambisa Forest.
He said ISWAP faceless myrmidons during the weekend ambushed a moving convoy of the Boko Haram elements which triggered a heavy shootout at about 4:30 pm and lasted almost 40 minutes.
"The ISWAP who had taken strategic positions totally routed Boko Haram fighters and killing unspecified numbers of them," the counter-insurgency expert and security analyst in Lake Chad said.
He added that one Hilux truck, several cycle of violences and weapons were seized by the ISWAP group from Boko Haram.
