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http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/12/africa/boko-haram-deadliest-attack/index.htmlBy the time the weapons went quiet, local officials reported death tolls ranging from hundreds to as many as 2,000 people.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/12/africa/boko-haram-deadliest-attack/index.htmlBy the time the weapons went quiet, local officials reported death tolls ranging from hundreds to as many as 2,000 people.
Mind boggling.Greg Bernhardt said:
In the jungle. I've always wondered where these jungle groups get their food if they raze the towns.Astronuc said:So where do these BH guys hideout?!
Just hit "gargoyle earth" and I'd call it eastern Kansas or Oklahoma or Texas. Some drier areas, but a lot of scrub and reasonable tree cover.Astronuc said:mostly desert
Astronuc said:So where do these BH guys hideout?!
http://news.yahoo.com/boko-haram-fo...mbings-in-latest-terror-tactic-173310903.html“Boko Haram doesn’t see age as a boundary. Age doesn’t carry the same value for Boko Haram. They see children as they would see any other target and regard children as expendable resources in this way,” Elizabeth Donnelly, assistant head of the Africa Program for Chatham House, said in an interview with Yahoo News.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/25/africa/nigeria-boko-haram-battle-maiduguri/index.htmlStrategic city falls
Maiduguri, a city of more than 600,000
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/01/25/uk-nigeria-violence-maiduguri-idUKKBN0KY08B20150125Nigeria repels suspected Boko Haram attack on Maiduguri city
(Reuters) - Nigeria's military repelled an attack by suspected Boko Haram militants on Borno state capital Maiduguri in the northeast, security sources said on Sunday, but the insurgents captured another Borno town.
The assault on Maiduguri, with a population of around two million, began just after midnight. Sources at two hospitals said at least eight people had died and 27, mostly civilians, had been injured. A raid on the town of Monguno, 140 km (80 miles) north, began later in the morning and was under militant control by the late afternoon. [...]
Looking back last May - Special Report: The rifts behind Nigeria's mass kidnap(Reuters) - Nigerian troops backed by air strikes were fighting on Monday to recapture the northeastern town of Monguno from Boko Haram insurgents who had seized it a day earlier, security sources said.
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butWashington (AFP) - Turning the tide against Boko Haram will require a "huge" international effort, a top US military commander warned on Tuesday, taking a swipe at Nigeria's response to the emboldened extremists.
Relations between the Nigerian and US militaries have been strained with Nigeria cancelling training by US advisers of a unit that was supposed to fight the militants, . . . .
Nigeria has the largest army in west Africa but has come under criticism at home and abroad for failing to stop the advance of Boko Haram.
According to government figures, some 150,000 refugees as well as returning Niger migrants are seeking shelter amongst locals in Diffa, an impoverished region recovering from drought.
The fight is getting bigger.N'Djamena (AFP) - Three soldiers and 123 Boko Haram militants were killed when the Islamist group attacked a Chadian army contingent in northern Cameroon, the Chadian military said.
Twelve soldiers were wounded in the attacks staged by the Islamists on Thursday and Friday near the border town of Fotokol, according to a military statement read out on national television.
Chad sent a convoy of troops and military vehicles into neighbouring Cameroon on January 17 to deal with the growing threat Boko Haram poses in the region.
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Boko Haram, hit by 3-nation offensive, rampage in CameroonFotokol (Cameroon) (AFP) - Nigerian Boko Haram fighters went on the rampage in the Cameroonian border town of Fotokol Wednesday, massacring dozens of civilians and torching a mosque before being repelled by regional forces.
The onslaught came a day after Chad sent troops across the border to flush the jihadists out of the Nigerian town of Gamboru, which lies some 500 metres (yards) from Fotokol on the other side of a bridge.
Chad's army said it had killed more than 200 Boko Haram militants in the intervention -- the first by regional forces against Boko Haram on its home ground. But some of the insurgents escaped, it added.
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After several hours of clashes Cameroonian troops, backed by Chadian forces who scrambled back from Nigeria to help guard the town, managed to repel the assault.
Nigeria needs to cooperate with Chad, Cameroon and Niger to eliminate BH. Too much killing already!and they seem to be - Nigeria, neighbors to send 8,750 troops to fight Boko HaramNiamey (AFP) - Boko Haram launched its first major attack in Niger on Friday, triggering a forceful response from regional troops who claimed to have killed more than a hundred of the Islamists.
The clashes in Bosso and Diffa, along the border with Nigeria, marked yet another expansion of violence attributed to Boko Haram, but it seemed to have come at a heavy cost.
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N'Djamena (AFP) - Boko Haram on Wednesday launched a pre-dawn raid in Gamboru, northeastern Nigeria, looking to overwhelm Chadian troops who had pushed them out of the border town.
The military in N'Djamena said the militants were repelled but the counter-attack was an indication of the task facing regional forces aiming to crush the rebellion.
Troops from Chad, Cameroon and Niger have been deployed to fight the Islamists, whose bloody insurgency has claimed more than 13,000 lives since 2009 and now threatens Nigeria's neighbours.
YOLA, Nigeria – When Islamic extremists snatched more than 270 girls from the Chibok boarding school in Nigeria in the dead of night, protests broke out worldwide. The U.S. pledged to help find them, and the #BringBackOurGirls hashtag was born.
Some 10 months later, most are still missing. The Boko Haram extremist group sees the mass kidnapping as a shining symbol of success, and has abducted hundreds of other girls, boys and women. The militants brag to their new captives about the surrender of the Chibok girls, their conversion to Islam and their marriage to fighters.
"They told me the Chibok girls have a new life where they learn to fight," says Abigail John, 15, who was held by Boko Haram for more than four weeks before escaping. "They said we should be like them and accept Islam."
It seems that the US will be directly involved with BH and Daesh, whether it wants to be or not.Kano (Nigeria) (AFP) - Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan appealed for more US help in fighting Boko Haram, as the Islamists struck again on Saturday and called for a boycott of upcoming general elections.
The head of state for the first time claimed direct links between the Sunni radicals who have been waging a six-year insurgency in Nigeria and the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq.
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Boko Haram forces appear poised to attack Maiduguri, a city of 2 million in northeast Nigeria — meaning that 200,000 Christians could be at risk of slaughter by the Islamist terror group, say U.S. intelligence officials and experts on Nigeria. “An attack on Madiguri is very likely,” said J. Peter Pham, director of the Africa Project at the Atlantic Council, echoing U.S. intelligence officials.
[PLAIN]http://news.yahoo.com/boko-haram-invades-restive-nigerian-city-gombe-locals-105521810.html[/PLAIN]Astronuc said:Nigerian president calls for US help as Boko Haram invade city
http://news.yahoo.com/boko-haram-invades-restive-nigerian-city-gombe-locals-105521810.html
I think the US retains a choice in the matter, in both cases.Astronuc said:It seems that the US will be directly involved with BH and Daesh, whether it wants to be or not.
Metastasis.LONDON (Reuters) - Nigeria's militant Islamist group Boko Haram pledged allegiance on Saturday to Islamic State, which rules a self-declared caliphate in parts of Iraq and Syria, according to an audio clip posted online.
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Boko Haram has killed thousands and kidnapped hundreds during its six-year campaign to carve out an Islamist state in northern Nigeria. In recent months it has increased cross-border raids into Cameroon, Chad and Niger.
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I read somewhere that ISIS would be unlikely to accept them because of racismAstronuc said:Nigeria's Boko Haram pledges allegiance to Islamic State: audio clip
We're not so lucky so far, however:Vanadium 50 said:Maybe we could get them fighting each other.
Agreed. This belief is always reinforced whenever ISIS attacks other islamist groups/muslim countries (Al Nusra in Syria, Al Qaeda affiliated groups in Libya, Egyptian soldiers in Sinai). However, I think the biggest motivation for some muslims to believe that ISIS is a US/western/zionist conspiracy is simply a cheap attempt to disown the group extreme barbarism.Czcibor said:Hossam:
Such things let me understand why (except of course because of usual blaming others for their internal problems) some Muslims on Al-Jazeera claim that ISIS is a Zionist conspiracy.
I always found this claim laughable. ISIS views the muslim brotherhood and its offshoot HAMAS as apostates because they, in ISIS eyes, accept democracy rather than the codified law of God as a way to rule. Also HAMAS defines itself as a resistance movement fighting for the freedom of Palestine, which is too secular of a goal as far as ISIS is concerned. In fact the whole idea of Palestine is based on western drawn borders which ISIS hopes to demolish anyway. This view is not new and is not unique to ISIS. Ayman Al-Zawahiri (Al Qaeda current leader) has always criticised HAMAS for the same reasons long before ISIS was founded.On the other hand it puts Israel claims that Hamas and ISIS is effectively all the same as not specially believable propaganda.
Incredible. "We rescued hundreds of kidnapped girls...no, they aren't the hundreds you're thinking of, it's a *different* group, also numbering in the hundreds."Astronuc said:Nigerian government reports that 293 women and girls are rescued from BH.
Chibok girls not among group rescued by Nigerian army: spokesman
http://news.yahoo.com/chibok-girls-not-among-nigerian-girls-rescued-army-211144306.html
Kano (Nigeria) (AFP) - Nigerian troops have rescued about 160 more hostages from Boko Haram's Sambisa Forest stronghold, the army said on Thursday, taking the total number liberated this week alone to nearly 500.
The numbers underlined the scale of the tactic of mass abduction used by the militants, who according to Amnesty International have seized about 2,000 women and girls since the start of last year.