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| Chad says it bombs Boko Haram bases in Nigeria; Nigeria denies it |
| 2015-06-20 |
| [Al Ahram] Chad's military said it had carried out air strikes against 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... bases in Nigeria in retaliation for twin suicide kabooms in Chad this week that killed at least 34 people, but the announcement was strongly denied No, no! Certainly not! by Nigeria. The air raids caused heavy human and material damage to six of the Islamist bully boys' bases, Chad's military said late on Wednesday, without providing further details. Nigerian authorities rejected reports that the attacks had taken place on its soil, saying they were likely instead to have been in neighbouring Niger. "The claim that the Chadian military have conducted air strikes against six terrorist camps in Nigeria is not correct," said military front man Major General Chris Olukolade. In recent weeks Nigeria said Boko Haram had been forced out of most of the areas it once controlled in northern Nigeria. A few hours after Chad's announcement, Boko Haram bully boyz attacked two villages in neighbouring Niger's southern region of Diffa, security sources said. The attackers drove into the villages in the Gueskerou area, along the banks of the Komadugu River which separates Niger and Nigeria, in cars and on cycle of violences and shot residents before setting fire to the thatched houses where others were hiding. "In all, at least 30 were killed. Some of them died when the houses were set alight," said one of the security officials. He said he expected the corpse count to rise as a number of survivors had suffered serious burns. |
| Posted by:Fred |