| Good lord — at they rate they’re demobbing themselves, the payroll must be down to single digits. |
...Nigeerian Islamist group, formerly paying homage to al-Qaeda, then, when the money ran out, to the Islamic State, and headed by nutcase Abu Bakr Shekau. Once he exploded in a gunfight with ISWAP, many in the group surrendered to the govt and others went with their new overlords. The remainder are a shell of their former selves, stmbling glassy-eyed and lonely through the Sambisa Forest and the soothing waters of Lake Chad, asking themselves What is truth?, or maybe just
I wonder what's for dinner? I hope it's not rhinocerous again!...
has said at least 3,600 of the forces of Evil have surrendered since August. Nigeria-born Major General Abdul Khalifa Ibrahim spoke Sunday at the end of a visit to 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...
General Ibrahim, commander of the four-nation Multinational Joint Task Force Commission, or MNJTF, says the number of forces of Evil escaping from Boko Haram is increasing by the day.
"I can tell you authoritatively from the beginning of August, about 3,000 Boko Haram members have surrendered. This is just within the Multinational Joint Task Force in Cameroon and in Nigeria," he said.
He says it is suspected that an additional 600 forces of Evil who surrendered within the past two months to the Joint Task Force are former Boko Haram fighters.
Several thousand other defections were reported in May, when infighting broke out among Boko Haram factions after Boko Haram leader Aboubakar Shekau was declared dead.
MNJTF, headquartered in Chad's capital N'djamena, is made up of more than 10,000 troops from Niger, Cameroon, Chad and Nigeria. Ibrahim says that since August, his forces have launched "ceaseless" raids on Boko Haram camps in the Sambisa forest and the Lake Chad Basin, causing confusion among bully boys.
The jihadists have not responded to claims that many forces of Evil are defecting. Boko Haram usually uses social media platforms to dismiss such claims.