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| 'Two Cameroon Soldiers Killed' Fighting Boko Haram near Nigeria |
| 2015-05-12 |
| [AnNahar] Two soldiers from 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... have been killed and at least two others maimed in an attack by 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 near the Nigerian border, security sources told AFP on Monday. Speaking on condition of anonymity, one Cameroonian military officer said two troops were killed, and an officer and a soldier injured in a clash on Saturday with the Islamists. A security source said the troops had been ambushed while patrolling Krawa-Maffa, a northern village located one kilometer (less than a mile) away from the Nigerian border. On the other side of the frontier, "the Nigerian army is striking Boko Haram's positions almost every day, while the holy warriors are trying their hardest to cross over to our side," the Cameroonian source said. Nigeria's military has claimed a series of major victories over Boko Haram across the northeast during an operation launched in February with support from Cameroon, Chad and Niger. But the snuffies still hold positions along the Cameroonian border with Nigeria, in the Sambisa Forest and Mandara mountains. Nigeria's authorities say they are winning the war against Boko Haram, and that they aim to recapture the group's Sambisa stronghold by May 29, when president-elect Muhammadu Buhari is due to take office. Chadian and Cameroonian forces have also seized Boko Haram positions nearby. |
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