Boko Haram, the Party of the People of the Sunnah for Dawah and Jihad, continues to show how cowed and frightened it is by Michelle Obama’s hashtag counter-jihad, and by the declaration of war against it by African heads of state. It continues to operate with absolute impunity, murdering 17 people just a day after murdering 118 in another city.
“Nigeria violence: ‘Boko Haram kill 17’ in village attack,” BBC, May 21, 2014:
The Islamist group Boko Haram has been accused of killing at least 17 people in an attack on a village in north-east Nigeria, close to where hundreds of schoolgirls were seized.
It comes a day after 118 people died in a double bombing in the central city of Jos, also blamed on Boko Haram.
In the latest attack, Boko Haram fighters reportedly spent hours killing and looting in the village of Alagarno.
Alagarno is near Chibok, from where the schoolgirls were abducted last month.
The abductions of more than 200 girls caused international outrage and prompted foreign powers to send military advisers to assist Nigeria’s army.
People in north-east Nigeria are extremely vulnerable to attacks because many areas are no-go zones for the military and the insurgents operate freely, correspondents say.
richard Sherman says
BOKO HARAM is precisely emulating the example of the sociopath Muhammad who personally decapitated 900 unarmed Jewish men, and then kidnapped and enslaved approximately 1000 Jewish girls and women…typical Muslims..
Jay Boo says
Obama helped arm them.
Hillary refused to criticize them.
RonaldB says
We know what the Nigerian army has to do to get rid of Boko Haram. It won’t be pretty and the best thing the western governments can do is stay out of the way and let the Nigerian army operate.
We too often tie the hands of armies under attack, including our own, with fantasy-based rules and constraints. Often, the insurgents are far more vicious in the areas under their control than the government army could ever be. But, western protests and sanctions get far more traction with a government than with the rebels, so the Western government winds up hamstringing its own “ally” , just because it can.
Tradewinds says
Boko Haram = Islam
Robert Wagner says
The problem is that the Nigerian Army seems to have been trained by Monty Python.
“Run away, run away”