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| Nigeria Struggles To Protect Citizens As Boko Haram Death Toll Climbs |
| 2016-02-12 |
| [HUFFINGTONPOST] It took murderous Moslems a few hours to burn the small Nigerian village of Dalori to the ground. At least 86 people were killed in the hail of bullets, fire bombs and suicide kabooms that engulfed the village on Jan. 30, officials said. Nigerian troops showed up about an hour after suspected members of Islamist Death Eater group 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... sped into the village on cars and cycle of violences that Saturday evening. They were outgunned by the armed bad boys, and the assault continued until better-armed reinforcements could arrive about four hours later, local soldiers and residents who survived the attack told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named. Some Dalori residents criticized forces for not showing up in time to stop the massacre, The New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... reported. At dawn on Tuesday, the bad boy group struck yet again, this time at a camp for people who had already fled its violence in the northeast. Two jacket wallahs killed over 60 people at Dikwa camp. That grisly toll could have been even higher -- a third bomber refused to detonate her explosives when she realized her parents and siblings were in the camp, Nigerian officials said. Nigeria has invested huge resources in fighting Boko Haram over the past years, and has recaptured a lot of territory previously held by the Death Eater group. But the carnage in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... highlights how vulnerable civilians remain to Boko Haram attacks and that authorities still face huge obstacles keeping people safe from the bad boy group. |
| Posted by:Fred |