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| Nigeria Military Says Killed 37 Boko Haram Islamists in Raid |
| 2013-10-23 |
| [An Nahar] Nigeria's military said Tuesday it killed 37 suspected 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... fighters in a ground and air assault on an krazed killer camp in the northeast, the epicenter of the Islamist group's four-year uprising. The military attacked a suspected Boko Haram camp in Borno state, said military front man Aliyu Danja. The military recovered arms and ammunition and destroyed vehicles and cycle of violences belonging to suspected Islamists, he said. "The operation which commenced (on) Monday involved a coordinated ground and air assault," said Danja. "It was aimed at destroying the terrorists' camp... A total of 37 suspected Boko Haram gunnies were killed in (a) cross fire exchange." The account could not be independently verified. The assault came after Boko Haram gunnies dressed in military uniform and riding cycle of violences on Sunday killed 19 people near the Nigerian border with Cameroon, according to residents and survivors of that attack. On October 15, the military said it repelled coordinated attacks by Boko Haram Islamists, killing 40 krazed killers, although it provided few details. |
| Posted by:Fred |