[ALMANAR.LB] Nigerian troops have incarceratedYouse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit!
the criminal mastermind of bombings in the central cities of Jos and Zaria this week that killed at least 69 people, the defense ministry said on Thursday.
| Well done, O Nigerian troops! Now interrogate him well, and his electronics, too. |
... 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...
terrorist group.
The arrest coincided with a government offer to negotiate with the bully boy bad boy group, a decision some analysts say contradicts President Muhammadu Buhari's pledge not to negotiate with terrorists.
Army front man Colonel Sani Usman said the arrest of the unnamed criminal mastermind came at a checkpoint in Gombe State.
"As a result of tip-off and cordon and search at a checkpoint in Gombe State, Nigeria, the criminal mastermind of the terrorist act in Jos at a mosque and restaurant and, of course, at the screening exercise in Zaria, Kaduna state, was arrested along with two others," he said.
| Henchmen, too? They often know things... Fetch a barrel of mustache wax, the #4 calipers, and a pot of strong tea, Sergeant! There's work to be done tonight! |
"If you are quite aware, sometime back, the Boko Haram holy warriors were also holding territory here in Nigeria. But, we have succeeded in flushing them out of all those territories. They are now confined to the Sambisa Forest. What you are seeing is a kind of remnant elements that decide to go back to the tactics of bombing isolated or so-called soft targets," Usman said.