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ISWAP Leader, Ba'a Shuwa, Scores Of Fighters Reportedly Killed By Nigerian Military Airstrikes
2024-01-06
[SAHARAREPORTERS] The Nigerian military has reportedly eliminated the Nigerian leader of 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....
 of West Africa Province (ISWAP), Ba’a Shuwa.

According to a report posted by a counter-insurgency expert and security analyst in the Lake Chad region, Zagazola Makama, on X (formerly Twitter), on Friday, the Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s also eliminated scores of Shuwa's fighters in the North East of Borno during a major offensive.

According to Zagazola, Ba'a Shuwa was the ISWAP leader of the Nigerian Wylayat, Lake Chad, Kwalfarji, Timbuktu Farouq and Sambisa Mantika of the ISIS-affiliated ISWAP.

Citing intelligence sources, Zagazola said the damaging airstrikes were carried out on January 2, 2023 at Kwatan Dilla, in the Abadam Local Government Area of Borno State.

Zagazola said that Shuwa was appointed in 2021 after 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...
 killed himself
Ah. We kind of lost track of the rump Boko Haram at that point — ISWAP had all the attention...
and that he commanded forces of Evil in Chiralia, Markas Kauwa, Abirma, Buk, Abulam, Dusula, Abbagajiri, Gorgore and many other camps within the Timbuktu and Alagarno axes in the South of Borno.

He identified some of his top commanding officers as Khaid Hanzala, Ba'a Idirisa, Rawana, Abou Ibrahim, Mallam Abubakar, Abou Aisha and Abou Khalid who was responsible for the recent attack on the electricity towers along Maiduguri-Damaturu highway.
That’s one way to make friends and influence people, I guess.
According to him, Ba'a Shuwa and his group of forces of Evil were mostly responsible for attacks, ambushes and IED/mine towards Damboa roads, Damaturu-Maiduguri, Askira, Buratai, Buni Yadi, Buni Gari, Gaidam and other parts of Borno and Yobe states.
Related:
ISWAP: 2023-12-29 Good Morning
ISWAP: 2023-12-29 Islamic Terrorists, ISWAP Blow Up Another Transmission Tower Along Maiduguri-Damaturu Highway
ISWAP: 2023-12-27 Nigerian Governor Vows Justice After Deadly Attacks Claim Over 100 Lives
Related:
Abadam Local Government Area: 2023-03-11 Nigerian Troops Arrest Boko Haram Commander, Wife, Four Children; Nab 35 Terrorists’ Suppliers
Abadam Local Government Area: 2022-04-01 Boko Haram Terrorists Ambush ISWAP Fighters, Kill 50 In Borno
Abadam Local Government Area: 2022-03-21 ISWAP Leader, Sani Shuwaram Killed By Nigerian Military Airstrikes
Related:
Borno State: 2023-12-04 Boko Haram Arms Supplier Escapes From Nigerian Military Prison In Borno State, Leaves With AK-47
Borno State: 2023-12-01 Nigeria: 4 soldiers and militiamen killed in a jihadist ambush
Borno State: 2023-08-25 Over 41 Terrorists, Commanders Killed As Boko Haram, ISWAP Shoot It Out Again In Borno
Related:
Abubakar Shekau: 2023-03-18 Three Nigerian Soldiers Toes Up, Kaboomed By ISWAP IED In Borno
Abubakar Shekau: 2022-11-22 ISWAP Terrorists Clash With Boko Haram Rivals, Kill Many, Seize Weapons
Abubakar Shekau: 2022-09-24 ISWAP Terrorist Group Says It Killed Two Nigerian Soldiers During Attack On Military Checkpoint In Ex-Army Chief, Buratai's Town
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