Nigeria's military said Tuesday that it has killed a senior 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...
Islamist leader and locked away
Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit!
156 suspected members of the group during a weekend raid in northeastern Adamawa state.
"In the three-day operation, the town was placed under 24-hour curfew, which enabled soldiers to comb the nooks and corners," said Lieutenant Saleh Mohammed Buba, military front man in Adamawa.
"A total of 156 suspects were rounded up in raids of suspected (Boko Haram) hideouts. A sect commander known as Abubakar Yola who went by the alias Abu Jihad was rubbed out in a shootout while trying to flee," he added.
The operation was carried out in the town of Mubi, not far from the city of Maiduguri in neighbouring Borno state, which is considered the base of the Islamist group that is blamed for killing more than 1,400 people in Nigeria since 2010.
The military has claimed a series of successes against the group during weekend operations in several cities in the northeast, the epicentre of the Boko Haram insurgency.
In Damaturu, the military said it killed 35 suspected Boko Haram members in fierce shootouts from late Sunday into Monday morning.
Like Mubi, Damaturu was placed under round-the-clock curfew ahead of the military operation.