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Nigeria: Islamic jihadists of Boko Haram murder 100 people as they take over town; “nine major villages are on the run”

Jul 21, 2014 9:32 am By Robert Spencer

ShekauAbubakar Shekau, the leader of the Congregation of the People of the Sunnah for Dawah and Jihad, aka Boko Haram, knows that Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan can do nothing to stop his jihad group, which has enjoyed the support of Nigerian generals, and revels in the knowledge. Why was this “north-eastern town left undefended by Nigeria’s military”? Was it because those who should have been defending it were sympathetic to the jihad group?

“Boko Haram insurgents kill 100 people as they take control of Nigerian town,” Associated Press, July 19, 2014:

Boko Haram extremists have killed more than 100 people and hoisted their black and white flag over a north-eastern town left undefended by Nigeria’s military, according to a civil defence spokesman and a human rights advocate.

Hundreds of people in another north-eastern area, Askira Uba, are fleeing after receiving letters from the Boko Haram threatening to attack and take over their villages, Abbas Gava, a spokesman for the Nigerian Vigilante Group said.

“Nine major villages are on the run,” he said.

Survivors said on Saturday that the insurgents had attacked the town of Damboa before dawn on Friday, firing rocket-propelled grenades, throwing homemade bombs into homes and gunning down people as they tried to escape the ensuing fires. Most of the town had burned down, they said.

A human rights advocate said Boko Haram had struck again as people were trying to bury their dead, and that the toll was probably much higher than 100. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorised to speak to reporters.

The only defence came from vigilantes armed with clubs and homemade rifles, Gava said.

If those vigilantes achieve any success, we will start seeing mainstream media reports about Christians victimizing innocent Muslims in Nigeria.

The town had been under siege for two weeks, since Boko Haram dislodged soldiers from a new tank battalion camp on its outskirts.

The defence ministry claimed to have repelled the attack and killed at least 50 insurgents for the loss of six soldiers, including the commanding officer, but locals said many soldiers had been killed and that the military had been driven from the base. They said in the past week the extremists have twice ambushed military convoys trying to reach the base.

The militants cut off access to the town on Monday, when they blew up a bridge to the south of it. Damboa is on the main road south from Maiduguri, the Borno state capital, and at a strategic crossroads for farmers bringing their produce to market….

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  1. Jay Boo says

    Jul 21, 2014 at 9:45 am

    Yet,
    Muslims still claim Islam is a religion.

  2. Jay Boo says

    Jul 21, 2014 at 9:51 am

    The UN complained when Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan tried to clean up house. If he did a Saddam style purge of disloyal generals with Islamist sympathies The UN would scream about sanctions.
    Remember that the US only recently declared Boko Haram a terrorist organization.

  3. tpellow says

    Jul 21, 2014 at 10:02 am

    -No Islamic-‘leftist’ demonstrations in Paris and London against these Islamic jihad massacres.

  4. 11B40 says

    Jul 21, 2014 at 11:05 am

    Greetings:

    Funny how the media seems largely disinterested in keeping a running total of Boko Haram’s victims especially the all important civilians, women, and children categories like they seem to love to do viv-a-vis the Israelis.

    • Mirren10 says

      Jul 21, 2014 at 2:46 pm

      Boko Haram’s victims are not only Christian, they are also Africans. So they don’t really matter.

      Israel’s ‘civilian victims’ are lovely, ethnicky, brown skinned ‘noble Arab’ types, plus they are part of a jihad against Israel since 1947, loudly proclaiming their victimhood, and pretending they are actually a real country.

      And the absolute jackpot, of course, is that the msm, and leftards in general, can gleefully feed their vicious anti-Semitism, under the guise of hating ‘Zionism’ ( not **Jews**, per se, of course) and being on the side of ‘justice’, ie: the ‘poooor palestinians’.

      Puke, spit, and puke again.

      • Jay Boo says

        Jul 22, 2014 at 12:44 am

        Hey
        Mirren10

        It looks like Whitehomeland is blogging in your name
        That guy really needs to take his meds

        • Mirren10 says

          Jul 22, 2014 at 5:29 am

          What on *earth* are you talking about ?

          I think it’s *you* who needs, not just ‘meds’, but a good dose of reading comprehension.

          Read my post again.

  5. mary gonzales says

    Jul 21, 2014 at 6:22 pm

    Killing is their homework..
    This is why we can’t live together with them. The best way is to put clear secure border between them 24 hours.a check point like west bank.no live together in any reason..they can work or using street together, but not living for family together in a same area.

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