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| Massive Battle Leaves 128 Dead As Islamic Militants Attack Nigerian Forces |
| 2013-10-31 |
| [GLOBAL.CHRISTIANPOST] A large-scale battle between Nigerian forces and Islamic hard boyz lasting over 5 hours in the state of Yobe has left 128 people dead, local sources have reported, raising questions about how much control the government has over the troubled region. Details are still scarce about the violence that occurred late last week, but figures quoted by Nigerian military and hospitals state that 95 of the dead are bad boys, 23 are soldiers and eight others are coppers. Other reports claim that the military suffered 35 casualties, with a hospital source sharing with AFP on Monday that the bodies were brought to a local morgue. Islamic terrorists, largely connected to bad boy group 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... , have been waging a war on Nigeria and the country's Christians for over four years now, targeting churches, congregations, schools and government buildings. Boko Haram has openly declared that its mission is to drive out Christians from the country, and has focused many of its attacks against followers of Christ in the northern region of Nigeria, where the population is mostly Moslem. Police and resident accounts of the Islamist raids in Yobe on Thursday and Friday noted that Boko Haram fighters stormed Nigerian security forces by foot and on vehicles, launching the attack after dark. They targeted four police buildings with guns and explosives, sparking the hours-long shootout with the military. Witnesses said that at least two civilians bit the dust in the attack. The high death-toll in the latest incident comes nearly six months after the Nigerian government imposed a state of emergency. "We have received lots of bodies in the last three days from the attacks. I counted 35 bodies in military uniform," said a bigwig at the Damaturu Specialist Hospital, speaking under the condition of anonymity. |
| Posted by:Fred |