[Iran Press TV] ... 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...
bully boyz in early January but failed to take any action.
The UK-based rights group said on Wednesday that it obtained information from senior military officers and other sources indicating the country's defense officials had prior knowledge of the January 3 attack that left as many as 2,000 people dead in the northeastern town of Baga, according to some reports.
"It is clear from this evidence that Nigeria's military leadership woefully and repeatedly failed in their duty to protect civilians of Baga and Monguno despite repeated warnings about an impending threat posed by Boko Haram," said Amnesty's Africa director Netsanet Belay.
In Baga, troops had reported a build-up of Takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...
murderous Moslems, signifying an imminent attack in the area, according to the rights groups.
The bully boyz had themselves warned the civilians of the impending onslaught, which forced hundreds to flee.
"The misleading conclusions by
The rights group is using Boko Haram's measures as a pretext to conclude that the military's counter-terrorism operations are "inaccurate and unfair", he added.
Abuja puts the corpse count from the brutal attack at 150.