... 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...fighters raided two villages in northeast Nigeria
... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border...
, the civilian militia said on Thursday.
Jihadists in pickup trucks attacked Kalari Abdiye and nearby Amarwa, some 20 kilometres (12 miles) from Borno state capital Maiduguri, on Wednesday evening.
"The button men, who were obviously Boko Haram fighters, killed nine people and injured nine more in the attacks," Ibrahim Liman, from the Civilian Joint Taskforce (CJTF) told AFP.
"They attacked the villages around 8:30 pm (1930 GMT) when it was raining and people were indoors."
Frightened residents rushed out of their homes but when they did so they were shot "indicriminately", said another CJTF leader, Babakura Kolo.
"The two villages were completely burnt by the attackers," he added, giving a similar toll.
Both villages are in Konduga, a district of Borno state that has suffered repeated attacks in a nine-year insurgency which has left more than 27,000 dead.
Last December six people were killed in a suicide kaboom on a crowded market in Amarwa, while 10 people bit the dust in April when twojacket wallah'>
It was not clear which of the two Boko Haram factions was behind the attacks and there was no claim of responsibility.
Fighters loyal to the group's long-time leader, 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 ..., have indiscriminately targeted civilians, particularly using suicide bombers and hit-and-run raids.
A separate faction backed by the Islamic state group and known as ISWAP (Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
West Africa Province) has focused more on attacking military and government targets.
But more radical elements are said to have taken over the ISWAP leadership, prompting fears of an upsurge in violence against the local population.
On Monday, ISWAP killed a Red Thingy health worker who had been kidnapped with two of her colleagues in a raid six months earlier, stoking fears for the other hostages being held.