... 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Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...Death Eaters, including two top commanders, have laid down their arms and withdrawn from the sect in response to a military offensive in the northeast.Military spokesperson Onyema Nwachukwu released photos on Monday of the men holding placards asking for forgiveness, and said the group’s chief bomb expert and his deputy were among those who turned themselves in. Hundreds of women and kiddies from the hard boys’ families also surrendered.
There have been several reports of snuffies surrendering since the reported death of the group’s leader Abubakar Shekau
...the lunatic leader of Boko Haram who has been reported dead at least eleven times, pledged his body and soul to ISIS, told his fighters to hang it up once or twice, and been fired by the Caliph and refused to step down. Last seen in 2017, sneaking into Cameroon while wearing a burka...
earlier this year.
It is, however, difficult to assess if the surrenders will be a major win for Nigerian forces fighting Boko Haram’s decade-long insurgency, according to Sadeeq Shehu, a retired senior officer of the Nigerian Air Force.
Even before Shekau’s death, he and his allies had faced a mounting threat from a breakaway faction known as 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
West Africa Province, or ISWAP, which has become more prominent in carrying out abductions and attacks over the past year.
There are also fears that the ISWAP snuffies may now be operating in the country’s northwest, too. Authorities confirmed recently that an Death Eater flag was seen flying in one town in northwest Niger state.