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| Africa Subsaharan |
| 3 female suicide bombers kill 27, wound 83 in northeast Nigeria |
| 2017-08-16 |
| [AlAhram] A woman jacket wallah blew herself up and killed 27 others at a market in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... on Tuesday, two local officials said, in an attack bearing the hallmark of 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... krazed killers. Two more suicide bombers detonated their devices at the gates to a nearby refugee camp, wounding many people, an emergency services official said. In all, 83 people were maimed in the three kabooms near the city of Maiduguri, epicentre of the long-running conflict between government forces and Boko Haram. Nigeria's military last year wrested back large swathes of territory from the Islamist myrmidons. But they have struck back with renewed zeal since June, killing at least 143 people before Tuesday's bombings and weakening the army's control. The group has waged an eight-year war to create an Islamic state group in northeast Nigeria, and provoked international outrage by kidnapping more than 200 schoolgirls known as the Chibok Girls in April 2014. Its better-known faction, led by Abubakar Shekau ... the lunatic leader of Boko Haram who has been reported dead at least eleven times, pledged his body and soul to ISIS, told his fighters to hang it up once or twice, and been fired by the Caliph and refused to step down ... , has mainly based itself in the sprawling Sambisa forest, and been characterised by its use of women and kiddies as suicide bombers targeting mosques and markets. A rival faction - based in the Lake Chad region, led by Abu Musab al-Barnawi and boasting ties to Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group - has in the meantime quietly become a deadly force capable of carrying out highly-organised attacks. Last month, an oil prospecting team was captured by al-Barnawi's group. At least 37 people, including members of the team, died when rescuers from the military and vigilantes attempted to free them. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 A woman jacket wallah A lost schoolgirl? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-08-16 10:14 |