| For their own use and for sale, in the traditional Muslim way. |
... 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...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...
... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border...
, police say.
"Eight hundred and fifteen students returned to the school and were visibly seen, out of 926 in the school," the police minister of Yobe state, Abdulmaliki Sumonu, told news hounds on Wednesday. "The rest are missing. No case of abduction has so far been established."Earlier in the day, two sources said that a roll-call at the girls' school in the village on Tuesday showed that 91 students were absent.
"I saw girls crying and wailing in three Tata vehicles and they were crying for help," a witness from the nearby village of Gumsa, who was reportedly forced to show the Death Eaters the way out of the area and then released, told Rooters.
Meanwhile,
...back at the hoedown, the fiddler suddenly struck a sour note. The dancing stopped abruptly. Everyone looked at Bob...
seven parents said their daughters were among the missing.
"I hope my daughter is not one of those kidnapped as we learned that over ninety of them were not seen after going through their register book," one parent said.
The two sources, several parents and other local witnesses spoke on condition of anonymity as Nigerian security and government officials warned them not to disclose the disappearance.
Eyewitnesses said on Monday that a convoy of pickup trucks belonging to Boko Haram descended on Dapchi in the Bursari area of Yobe state around 6 p.m. (1700 GMT). The