[PULSE.NG] Nigerian troops fought off 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...
murderous Moslems as they tried to attack a military post near the home of the country's most senior army officer, security sources and residents said on Friday.
Jihadist fighters attacked the position on Thursday night in Kamuya village, in the northeastern state of Borno, near where Chief of Army Staff Tukur Yusuf Buratai has a home.
"The bandidos forces of Evil made a failed attempt
 Curses! Foiled again!
to overrun the military location" in preparation for an attack on the village, a military officer in the Borno state capital, Maiduguri, told AFP.
"The soldiers stood their ground and fought the bandidos forces of Evil for close to three hours and forced them to flee," he said.
Civilian militia leader Mustapha Karimbe said the attack began at about 5pm (1600 GMT) on Thursday and lasted until about 8pm.
"Luckily the button men met stiff resistance from the soldiers," said Karimbe from the town of Biu, some 30 kilometres (18 miles) away.
There were no immediate details about casualties.
It was also not clear which Boko Haram faction was behind the attack, although the IS-affiliated 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
West Africa Province (ISWAP) is known to operate in the area.
Kamuya is the home town of Buratai's mother and was twice raided by Boko Haram in December 2015, not long after the lieutenant general was appointed chief of army staff.
Nearby Buratai village, 10 kilometres away, was also hit.
The latest attack came days after Boko Haram overran a military base in the town of Rann, near the border with 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...
, forcing thousands of civilians to flee.
Fourteen people, including three soldiers, were said to have been killed, while aid workers said buildings used by humanitarian organizations were razed to the ground.
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