Nigerian troops have killed Islamist sect 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...
front man Abu Qaqa, a senior security source said on Monday, following a shootout in the northern city of Kano in which two men were also incarcerated
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
The Nigerian security source, who could not be named, said the man killed had been identified as Abu Qaqa, whose name frequently appears in pronouncements on behalf of the sect from its northeastern base.
He said that one of the two incarcerated
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
was suspected to be a top Boko Haram commander.
A front man for the military and police joint task force in Kano, Lieutenant Ikedichi, said checks were being made to determine the identities of the three men.
Nigerian authorities in March claimed to have captured Abu Qaqa, but the man turned out to be another of the sect's members. Verifying his death is complicated by the fact that the name is probably a pseudonym.
As long as he's dead he can call himself anything he wants...