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Nigerian Army personnel under Operation Hadin Kai have reportedly killed a top commander of the Jamā'at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da'wah wa'l-Jihād, otherwise known as 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..., Tahir Baga during their recent raid on Sambisa Forest in Borno State.
According to Zagazola Makama, a counter-insurgency expert and security analyst in the Lake Chad region, the terrorist top commander was killed on Monday when the army cleared their enclaves of Shabaabul Umma, Garin Panel Beater and Lagara Anguwan Gwaigwai at the heart of the forest.
Zagazola added that the troops and the gunnies clashed in heavy shootouts which resulted in the death of several top Boko Haram commanders including Baga.
Several others escaped with gunshot wounds, according to the counter-terrorism expert.
"Third Baga was a close ally to 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. Last seen in 2017, sneaking into Cameroon while wearing a burka..... He was among the first sets who founded the Boko Haram movement in Maiduguri before moving into Sambisa Forest with the likes of Mamman Nur, Khalid Albarnawi, Abubakar Shekau, Kaka Ali, Mustapha Chad, Abu Maryam and Abu Krimima.
"Tahir Baga was a revered Imam who was respected among the Sect group. He had on several bases truncated the efforts of many fighters and their families to surrender and also pushed many under-aged girls to go on suicide kaboom after convincing them that they would be granted paradise as an everlasting reward.
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