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| Boko Haram militants kill seven police in attack in Niger: military |
| 2016-06-18 |
| [REUTERS] 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... gunnies killed seven soldiers and injured others in military barracks in southeastern Niger and stole weapons, the Nigeria-based radical group said in a statement on Friday, according to SITE Intelligence Group. Before the statement was issued, military sources had said that gunnies from Boko Haram attacked a town in Niger while a delegation of ministers were visiting, killing seven gendarmes and wounding 12 in a shootout. They said none of the ministers had been hurt. The attack happened on Thursday in a region that hosts refugees and internally displaced people who have been forced from their homes by the Islamist bad boys, officials said. Boko Haram said in the statement that "a detachment from the soldiers of the Caliphate carried out an attack on military barracks of the Nigerien apostate army in the town of Ghafam in the area of Diffa ... A quantity of weapons and various ammunition was taken as spoils." Neighboring Chad has sent troops to help Niger in a planned counterattack against Boko Haram after the gunnies seized the southern Niger town of Bosso in an attack that killed 26 soldiers. Niger's government has called on former colonial power La Belle France, which already has 3,500 troops spread across five countries in West Africa, to strengthen military operations against the Nigeria-based Boko Haram and other holy warriors. Niger's defense minister, Hassoumi Messaoudou, told Radio La Belle France International on Friday that regional leaders needed to "rethink Boko Haram" and called on regional forces to defeat the group in Nigeria. |
| Posted by:Fred |