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| Soldiers Foil Suicide Attack at Nigeria Army Base |
| 2015-10-19 |
| [AnNahar] Nigerian soldiers rubbed out a suspected jacket wallah outside a military base in the northeast on Sunday, detonating explosives concealed in her handbag, a civilian vigilante and a military source told AFP. The target was thought to be the Maimalari army barracks -- the main military base in Maiduguri, which has been hit repeatedly in recent months by 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... Islamists. "Soldiers at Maimalari army barracks this morning (Sunday) foiled a suicide kaboom by a female bomber," said Babakura Kolo, from the civilian volunteer force assisting troops against the rebels. The woman approached the barracks around 7:00 am (0600 GMT) and headed towards the gates, he said. Military guards at the gates shouted at her to stop for security checks but she ignored them and continued walking towards the gates, he added. "She continued walking with her handbag slung on her shoulder, despite repeated shouts from the soldiers asking her stop. "One of the soldiers opened fire on the woman and the handbag went kaboom!, blowing the woman to pieces." There were no other casualties in the kaboom, which one military officer in the city described as an "attempted suicide attack by Boko Haram terrorists." |
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