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Africa Subsaharan
Nigeria: How 300 Libya-Trained ISWAP Fighters 'Conquered' Shekau
2021-05-23
[AllAfrica] Over 300 fighters loyal to the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 West Africa Province (ISWAP) trained in Libya and other countries joined their colleagues in the long battle that led to the final fall of 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...
 leader, Abubakar Shekau
Posted by:trailing wife

#4  Another credible source said some of the 300 youths were trained as "medical doctors, paramedics, engineers, IT specialists, bomb specialists and mechanics."

Uh huh. Resumes, please?
Posted by: Frank G   2021-05-23 08:08  

#3  ^What about the dead ones?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2021-05-23 05:45  

#2  /\ As appears to so often be the case in this part of the world, there are none.
Posted by: Besoeker   2021-05-23 05:18  

#1  Not clear here. Who's the good guys?
Posted by: Richard Aubrey   2021-05-23 04:56  

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