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| Boko Haram Recaptures Key Town in Northeast Nigeria |
| 2015-05-17 |
| [AnNahar] 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... Islamists have recaptured the strategic town of Marte in northeastern Nigeria's restive Borno state, a regional official said early on Saturday. "It is sad as we have been made to understand that Marte has today completely fallen under the control of the Death Eaters, which to us is a very huge setback," said Mustapha Zannah, vice governor of the Borno state. The town, located along a strategic trading route between Nigeria and neighboring Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... and Chad, has traded hands between the jihadists and government troops numerous times since 2013. A regional military coalition of Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon has claimed a series of major victories against Boko Haram since launching sweeping offensives against the jihadists in February. But the Islamist fighters, which recently pledged allegiance to the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... holy warriors who've captured swathes of Iraq and Syria, have been pushing back. The jihadists killed at least 55 people in two raids on villages near Maiduguri, the first assault on the northern city in three months. "Even if 90 percent of our communities have been liberated, the war is not yet over," Zannah cautioned early on Saturday. Boko Haram's six-year insurgency has claimed some 15,000 lives and displaced about 1.5 million people. |
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