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| Boko Haram Attack Kills 17 in Nigeria |
| 2014-04-07 |
| [AnNahar] 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... snuffies attacked a village in restive northern Nigeria, killing 17 people and setting houses and cars alight, the local government said Sunday. Among the dead were Mohammedan worshipers shot as they prayed in the village mosque, said Abdullahi Bego, front man for the governor of the troubled state of Yobe. "The gunnies are Boko Haram people, it was the same pattern of attacks they are known for," he told Agence La Belle France Presse. "They also burnt several houses and many vehicles before fleeing," he said. Yobe and neighboring Borno states are in the grip of an almost five-year-old Boko Haram insurgency that has claimed thousands of lives. The violent Islamist group, whose name means "Western education is sinful" in the Hausa language, has attacked isolated villages, schools and churches as well as military bases in a brutal campaign. Confronted with the violent insurrection, Nigerian troops launched a major crackdown in May 2013 against Boko Haram, which wants to create a separate hardline Islamic state in northern Nigeria. The conflict has forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee in fear either to other Nigerian states or neighboring countries. |
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