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Africa Subsaharan
Nigeria: 'Air Force Destroys Boko Haram's Facilities'
2018-09-09
[All Africa] The Nigerian Air Force says its air task force 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...
has successfully destroyed some facilities and equipment of the terror group at Alafa Yagayaga in Sambisa forest.

According to the Air force, the unit has also destroyed a suspected Boko Haram ammunition depot in Kusuma on the fringes of Lake Chad, Borno.

Ibikunle Daramola, NAF director of public relations and information disclosed this in a statement on Saturday in Abuja.

The air commodore said that the air strikes was in continuation of Operation Thunder Strike 2 which commenced on September 3.

"The air strikes against BHTs at Alafa Yagayaga were targeted at structures within the settlement identified via previous Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) missions to be rendezvous (RV) points for the hard boys.

"Consequently, a combination of NAF fighter aircraft and helicopter gunships were detailed to carry out air interdiction on the locations while the NAF ISR aircraft conducted Battle Damage Assessment (BDA).

"The attack platforms acquired the targets and took turns to attack the location, destroying the structures and killing most of the BHTs in the process.

"The few surviving BHTs, seen fleeing the area, were strafed and neutralised by the helicopter gunships," he said.

Mr Daramola said the attack at Kusuma was initiated, following credible intelligence indicating the presence of a Boko Haram logistics/ammunition depot within the settlement.

He explained that at end of the attacks, the force confirmed a direct hit on the ammunition depot which was engulfed in fire.

He said some other adjoining BHT structures were destroyed and the occupying murderous Moslems neutralised.

Posted by:Fred

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