[ABC.NET.AU] Suspected bully boyz from Nigerian Islamist group 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...
have kidnapped about 80 people and killed several others in a cross-border attack on villages in neighbouring 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...
Police say the vast majority of those kidnapped are women and kiddies.
During the attacks several people were killed and some houses were burnt to the ground.
They said soldiers intervened and exchanged fire with the raiders for around two hours.
The kidnapping was the biggest in Cameroon by the Islamists who have staged a series of attacks in the country in recent months and escalated their bloody insurgency in their stronghold in north-eastern Nigeria.
This attack is likely Dire Revenge for recent comments by Cameroon, criticising Nigeria for not doing enough to combat the insurgency.
The assault was launched after neighbouring Chad deployed troops to combat Boko Haram both in Cameroon and Nigeria.
Chadian troops are seeking to recapture the Nigerian city of Baga, on the shores of Lake Chad, which straddles the borders of Chad, Nigeria, Niger and Cameroon and which fell to the Islamists early this month.