[Dawn] Attacks blamed on West Africa branch of the Death Eater 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 have killed around 100 soldiers in northeast Nigeria
... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border...
since Sunday, five security sources said on Thursday.
Islamist Death Eaters had already killed hundreds of soldiers in the region in recent months, forcing a turnaround in the course of a war which President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration has frequently claimed to have won. Buhari will seek a second term in February 2019.
Earlier on Thursday, the Nigerian senate suspended its session in honour of what it said were 44 dead soldiers after an attack in Metele in the northeastern state of Borno on Sunday.
A presidency front man said the military would issue a statement.
Military spokesmen did not respond to repeated attempts to reach them for comment.
Four of the security sources said around 100 had died in that attack alone, though the corpse count was not final.
The fifth said 96 had died in the northeast in recent days, mostly in the Metele attack, but also in others.