[AA.TR] Nearly 8,000 civilians were taken from 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...
hideouts in Nigeria’s insurgency-wracked northeastern region during the month of February, an army commander said Wednesday.
Maj. Gen. Leo Irabor, commander of the country's counterinsurgency operation in the region, told a news briefing that some 7,898 persons were "rescued or incarcerated
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" between Feb. 2 and March 1 and are being investigated to determine their identities.
He added that eight imported muscle -- four Chadians, three Nigeriens, and one Cameroon
...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there...
ian working for Boko Haram -- were also arrested over the month, while dozens of gunnies were killed.
"On Feb. 24, 2017, some Boko Haram elements in gun trucks and on cycle of violences attacked our troops location at Gajiram. Sadly, one officer and 10 soldiers were killed in action and one other soldier was maimed in action," he said.
Irabor said another Boko Haram ambush on Feb. 9 also claimed eight soldiers, while 18 others were maimed. Three other soldiers are still missing, he added.
He also said several incidents of suicide kaboom were reported during the month, often claiming the lives of just the bombers.
The commander also rebuffed a recent Amnesia Amnesty International report accusing the military of killings of hundreds of civilians in the course of its operations, dismissing it as a "distraction".
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