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| Africa Subsaharan |
| Islamist Militants Killed, Hurt in Nigeria Attack on Troops |
| 2012-05-10 |
| [An Nahar] Soldiers in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri killed a suspected member of the 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... Islamist sect and maimed two others on Wednesday after repelling an attack, the army said. "The JTF (Joint Task Force)... at about 11:15 hours (1015 GMT) today... successfully repelled a suspected Boko Haram attack on one of its locations," an army front man said in a statement. "One Boko Haram terrorist was killed, two injured, two tossed in the clink Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! ," he said. No soldier or civilian was killed or injured in the encounter that lasted less than five minutes, he said, without giving further details. Soldiers in Nigeria's largest northern city of Kano on Sunday killed four suspected members of the sect in a raid on their hideout, the army said. |
| Posted by:Fred |