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| Boko Haram militants flushed from Nigerian state Yobe |
| 2015-03-17 |
| [Iran Press TV] 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... 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... turbans have been cleared from Nigeria's northeastern state of Yobe, following the reclaiming of the town of Goniri, military says. "We announced the reclaiming of Goniri today," AFP quoted defense front man Chris Olukolade as saying on his Twitter account on Monday. He added that Goniri was the Takfiri Death Eater's last strong hold in Yobe. Last week, the army announced that the state of Adamawa had been cleared of the ISIL Death Eaters. "Adamawa is free, Yobe is free, Borno is soon to be freed by our able military," Olukolade added via a separate tweet. Earlier in the day, following days of intense fighting the ISIL Takfiri turbans were forced out of from Bama in Borno State, said defense authorities. Before retaking the town, the turbans torched residents' homes. The fire forced large numbers of residents to flee to state capital Maiduguri. Bama fell into the hands of the turbans on September 11, 2014. The town of Gwoza is now the only town under the control of Boko Haram in Borno. The three Nigerian states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe, located in Nigeria's northeastern regions, have been the core of six years of Boko Haram violence, which has claimed over 13,000 lives and displaced a further 1.5 million people. |
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