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| Hollande: France Offers to Host Int'l Meeting on Boko Haram |
| 2015-08-26 |
| [ALMANAR.LB] French President Francois Hollande ...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist... offered Tuesday to organize an international meeting on tackling the 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... 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... that has killed thousands in Nigeria. "In several days, I will receive the new Nigerian President (Muhammadu) Buhari and I will confirm to him that La Belle France is ready to unite all the actors in the fight against Boko Haram," Hollande said during a speech to diplomats on Tuesday. Boko Haram has stepped up attacks in three Nigerian states in its northeastern heartland since Buhari, who has vowed to crush the group, came to power on May 29. The gunnies have also carried out bushwhackes across Nigeria's borders and in recent weeks jacket wallahs, many of them women, have staged several attacks in 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... and Chad. Chad, Cameroon and Niger, which has also suffered from attacks by Boko Haram, launched a regional force earlier this year to end a conflict that has claimed more than 15,000 lives since 2009. But the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF), which also includes Benin and is expected to number some 8,700 troops and police, has yet to go into action. |
| Posted by:Fred |