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| Boko Haram Raid Kills Nine Nigeria Troops |
| 2014-02-14 |
| [An Nahar] 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... gunnies killed nine Nigerian soldiers after launching an ambush on a military convoy in the troubled northeast, a local official and a hospital source told Agence La Belle France Prese Thursday. The troops were responding to a distress call late Wednesday in the Madagali area of Adamawa state when they were bombarded by Salafist tough guys armed with anti-aircraft weapons mounted on the backs of 4X4 trucks, said Maina Ularamu, a local government official in the area. "There was heavy fighting yesterday evening between soldiers and Boko Haram gunnies," Ularamu said. He added that the Islamists "ambushed a military convoy on a mission to avert a planned attack... on Izhe village." Adamawa is one of three northeastern states which has been under emergency rule since May, when the military launched a major operation to crush the Islamist uprising. A source at the Federal Medical center in the state capital Yola told AFP the hospital "received nine bodies of military personnel on (Wednesday) night from Madagali district." Ularamu said the fierce shootout that followed the Boko Haram ambush caused "casualties on both sides" but could not provide figures. The clash was the latest in Boko Haram's krazed killer insurgency which has caused thousands of deaths since 2009, especially in the northeast. On Tuesday, in neighboring Borno state, at least 43 people were killed in two separate attacks blamed on the Islamists. The deadliest raid struck the town of Konduga, where scores of gunnies razed more than half the village, spraying gunfire on fleeing civilians and killing 39. Boko Haram has said it is fighting to create a strict Islamic state in the mainly Mohammedan northern half of Nigeria, Africa's most populous country and top oil producer. |
| Posted by:Fred |