[REUTERS] Suspected 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...
Lions of Islam have killed dozens of people in five attacks on Nigerian villages that occurred after the government announced a ceasefire to enable 200 kidnapped girls to be freed, security sources and witnesses said on Saturday.
However,
a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package...
the government cast doubt on whether the attacks really were Boko Haram or one of several criminal groups that are exploiting the chaos of the insurgency. A front man said talks to free the girls would continue in Chad on Monday.
The fresh attacks dashed hopes for an easing of the northeast's violence, although officials remained confident they can negotiate the release of girls whose abduction by the rebels in the remote northeastern town of Chibok in April caused international shock and outrage.
A presidency and another government source said they were aiming to do this by Tuesday.