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2004-01-07 Africa: West

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Posted by Steve 2004-01-07 1:58:40 PM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Update: Jan 7: Nigerian troops and border guards from neighbouring Niger have killed or captured more than 50 Islamic radicals who launched a Taliban-style revolt, officials said yesterday. A spokesman for the Yobe State government said 47 rebels had been detained since Friday and five killed, along with three women and two children caught up in a raid on their border hideout.
Seven of those arrested were picked up by gendarmes from Niger Republic acting as guards on its porous frontier with Nigeria's remote and arid northern savannah, junior spokesman, Alkali Jajere, said on telephone. The Muhajirun group, which openly claims inspiration from Afghanistan's hardline Taliban movement, was thought to count around 200 members, mainly middle-class graduates from the Maiduguri. The group has launched a series of attacks in the last three weeks on police stations in Yobe State and along Nigeria's northern border with Niger, killing at least two officers.
Many of the radicals are thought to have melted away into the population, but their leader, nicknamed "Mullah Omar" after the Afghan Taliban's fugitive figurehead, has been arrested, Jajere said.

Just a poser, the "real" Omar would have ridden off into the sunset on his bike, vowing to return.

Posted by Steve 2004-1-7 2:05:19 PM|| 2004-1-7 2:05:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 the "real" Omar would have ridden off into the sunset on his bike, vowing to return.
Would the wind have been blowing at a nice Hollywood 12 MPH? I can see the gradient screens now... Orange fading to blue... The KH-4s lifting over the horizon... it's beautiful man.

Posted by Shipman 2004-1-7 5:45:42 PM|| 2004-1-7 5:45:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 The KH-4s lifting over the horizon.
You're in a time warp, Ship! THe last KH-4 was launched (and later burned up in the atmosphere) sometime in the 1970's...

Posted by Old Patriot 2004-1-7 8:50:15 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2004-1-7 8:50:15 PM|| Front Page Top

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