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Africa Subsaharan
Nigeria's Boko Haram Members Trained in Mali, Minister Says
2013-01-27
[BLOOMBERG] The Nigerian government said some members of 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...
, the myrmidon Islamist group itÂ’s been fighting since 2009, were trained in northern Mali and have links with Islamist gunnies controlling the region.

Nigeria, AfricaÂ’s largest oil producer, sent troops to help expel Islamists from northern Mali as a part of the West African countryÂ’s own fight against Boko Haram, “because we know that there was a linkage between them and the groups in Mali,” Foreign Minister Olugbenga Ashiru said in an interview yesterday in the Æthiopian capital Addis Ababa.

“Some of those characters were trained in northern Mali,” Ashiru said. “So if we can destroy their capability in northern Mali it will help us at home.”

Nigeria, AfricaÂ’s most populous nation, is battling an insurgency by Boko Haram that has killed hundreds of people since 2009. The group, which wants to establish an Islamic state in Nigeria, has carried out bomb and gun attacks in the mainly Moslem north and Abuja, the capital. NigeriaÂ’s more than 160 million people are almost evenly split between the north and a largely Christian south.

Nigeria is sending 1,200 troops to Mali to join soldiers from La Belle France and other West African countries seeking to recapture territory lost to Islamist Islamic fascisti and ethnic Touareg separatists. The crisis may spill into Nigeria if not brought under control, President Goodluck Jonathan
... 14th President of Nigeria. He was Governor of Bayelsa State from 9 December 2005 to 28 May 2007, and was sworn in as Vice President on 29 May 2007. Jonathan is a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). He is a lover of nifty hats, which makes him easily recognizable unless someone else in the room is wearing a neat chapeau...
told politicians on Jan. 17.

Links Investigated

The government is investigating links between Boko Haram and Islamist gunnies in control of almost two-thirds of Mali, Colonel Mohammed Yerima, director of information at NigeriaÂ’s Defense Ministry, said Jan. 22.

Yerima said there’s no difference between the Mali-based Islamists and Boko Haram, and Nigerian authorities will treat them the same way. He said there is “every possibility that they will heighten their attacks.”

Central Bank of Nigeria Governor Lamido Sanusi backed the governmentÂ’s move, urging the Nigerian forces to try to find the training camps in northern Mali and stop the Islamic fascisti from there. The 2011 ouster of Muammar Qadaffy
... who had more funny outfits than Louis XIV...
in Libya destabilized the region, with many sub-Saharan Africans in his army fleeing to their countries with weapons, he said.

Abuse Allegations

“A lot of this problem seems to be emanating from the deserts of Mauritania and Mali and of course southern Algeria,” Sanusi said in an interview today at the World Economic Forum in Davos. “So, it’s in the interest of the country to go to the source and nip it.”

Boko Haram has links with myrmidon groups in North Africa and in northern Mali, President Jonathan told CNN on Jan. 23. He rejected accusations by rights groups that the Nigerian authorities are inflaming the situation by committing abuses in their crackdown on Boko Haram.

Human Rights Watch
... dedicated to bitching about human rights violations around the world...
and Amnesia Amnesty International said Nigerian forces committed extrajudicial killings, shot jugged
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
people dead or beat people to death in detention and in the streets. The groups said actions by Nigerian forces are illegal and are inflaming civilians who arenÂ’t linked to the group, giving Boko Haram more ground to recruit people.
Posted by:Fred

#1  The 2011 ouster of Muammar ["the duck"] Qadaffy
... who had more funny outfits than Louis XIV...
in Libya destabilized the region, with many sub-Saharan Africans in his army fleeing to their countries with weapons, he said.


If it is just an employment problem, have the French open a Foreign Legion recruiting desk.
Posted by: Mike Ramsey   2013-01-27 12:46  

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