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| Africa Subsaharan |
| Cameroon intensifies battle against Boko Haram |
| 2014-08-04 |
| [Iran Press TV] 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... 's President Paul Biya has sent the army chief to the country's north in a bid to intensify the battle against Nigeria's 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... Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... Death Eaters. The commander was sent to the volatile area on Sunday, following a series of cross-border attacks and abductions performed by the Death Eaters. Biya has announced that the government will send more troops and military equipment to the area. "In the last few weeks, our forces have made important advances against Boko Haram, but it is a long fight," he said on Saturday. "Because it is an international terrorist movement, we should take action internationally." Boko Haram has long used northern parts of Cameroon near the Nigerian border as a safe haven for its acts of terror. The gunnies have conducted a number of assaults and kidnappings in Cameroon, including the abduction of deputy prime minister's wife in late July. Following the abduction, the Cameroonian army launched a successful operation and rescued the kidnapped wife of Amadou Ali. The notorious group has repeatedly targeted Nigerian civilians, mostly in the remote state of Borno, killing more than 2,000 civilians since January. |
| Posted by:Fred |