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Nigeria: Suspected Boko Haram jihadists mount deadly attacks after “ceasefire”

Oct 18, 2014 5:16 pm By Robert Spencer

BokoHaramTaking a page from the book of the “Palestinians.” “Suspected Boko Haram fighters mount deadly attacks after Nigeria ‘ceasefire,'” Reuters, October 18, 2014 (thanks to Twostellas):

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, Oct 18 (Reuters) – Suspected Boko Haram militants have killed dozens of people in five attacks on Nigerian villages that occurred after the government announced a ceasefire to enable 200 abducted girls to be freed, security sources and witnesses said on Saturday.

However, the government cast doubt on whether the attacks really were Boko Haram or one of several criminal groups that are exploiting the chaos of the insurgency. A spokesman said talks to free the girls would continue in Chad on Monday.

The fresh attacks dashed hopes for an easing of the northeast’s violence, although officials remained confident they can negotiate the release of girls whose abduction by the rebels in the remote northeastern town of Chibok in April caused international shock and outrage.

A presidency and another government source said they were aiming to do this by Tuesday.

Boko Haram, whose name translates roughly as “Western education is sinful”, has massacred thousands in a struggle to carve an Islamic state out of religiously mixed Nigeria, whose southern half is mainly Christian in faith.

Nigeria’s armed forces chief Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh announced the ceasefire on Friday. On Saturday, two senior government sources said it aims to secure the girls’ release as early as Monday or Tuesday, although they declined to give further details.

In the first attack, suspected insurgents attacked the village of Abadam on Friday night, killing at least one person and ransacking homes, while another assault on the village of Dzur on Saturday morning left at least eight people dead.

Three other attacks in Adamawa state on Saturday killed dozens of people, witnesses and a local politician said.

“I was just boarding a bus when the gunshots started,” Adams Mishelia, who was in the adjacent town of Shaffa, said of the Dzur attack. “People were fleeing into the bush, so I got off the bus and headed to the bush too. I later learned they slaughtered eight people.”…

Several rounds of negotiations with the jihadist movement have been pursued in recent years but they have never yielded calm, partly because of Boko Haram’s internal divisions.

Since the girls’ kidnapping, the Nigerian military has twice asserted that it rescued some or all of the girls, only to have to backtrack hours later….

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  1. kash says

    Oct 18, 2014 at 5:53 pm

    Gee, who could have seen this coming?

  2. Michael Copeland says

    Oct 18, 2014 at 7:00 pm

    “For peace to reign in the land, all Christians must convert to Islam.”
    http://libertygb.org.uk/v1/index.php/home/root/news-libertygb/6442-for-peace

  3. Wellington says

    Oct 18, 2014 at 7:19 pm

    I make this comment: Any black who is a Muslim is almost certainly mired in ignorance about the founder of Islam, Mohammed, and what the Islamic world did to black Africa long, long before the Judeo-Christian, Western world engaged in its own sin where black slavery is concerned (and for which this latter world has apologized profusely, in contrast to the Islamic world which has, to date, NEVER apologized for what it did to black Africans aplenty from the seventh century onwards).

    Mohammed himself referred to blacks as “raisin heads” (Bukhari Hadith 9.89.256). Mohammed himself had numerous black slaves and Islam began black slavery a full eight centuries before the Western world did and tried to continue it even after the Western world realized what a great wrong it was and ended it.

    In short, if you’re black and a Muslim, what the hell is wrong with you? The religion you adhere to was used for centuries as a vehicle for white Arab imperialism and to this day it has never apologized for this. And so, with a heinous group like Boko Haram, we have an extra stupid example of brainwashed people. Big time.

    Get this, Boko Haram? Do you get this, assholes? You’ve been had twice over. Once as a human being. The second time as a black human being. Oh yeah.

  4. PAthena says

    Oct 18, 2014 at 8:23 pm

    Note that slavery was universal in antiquity. It ceased to exist, probably because of Christianity. It is difficult to eradicate, and the British Anti-Slavery Society is still active. It was coming to existence in Russia since serfs were becoming more and more like slaves, and the Tsar Alexander III (?) emancipated the serfs in around 1861 (?) while the Civil War in the United States was fought to abolish slavery. It came back in the twentieth century with the slave labor camps of Nazi Germany and the gulag of the Soviet Union, socialists! the Nazis were nationalist socialists (Nazional Socialismus) and the Soviet Union internalist socialists.
    The terrorist organization ISIS is, I believe, enslaving people, as well as the government of the Sudan.
    Recently, an American woman who came from Egypt had been sold into slavery by her father so pay off a debt. Her owners brought her to California, where she was treated like a slave, and an anonymous tip led to her being freed.
    Not all slavery has been of blacks. The great Greek philosopher Epictetus was a slave. Plato was kidnapped and enslaved, freed by being bought out by friends.

    • PAthena says

      Oct 18, 2014 at 8:26 pm

      Note that slavery was universal in antiquity. It ceased to exist, probably because of Christianity. It is difficult to eradicate, and the British Anti-Slavery Society is still active. It was coming to existence in Russia since serfs were becoming more and more like slaves, and the Tsar Alexander III (?) emancipated the serfs in around 1861 (?) while the Civil War in the United States was fought to abolish slavery. It came back in the twentieth century with the slave labor camps of Nazi Germany and the gulag of the Soviet Union, socialists! the Nazis were nationalist socialists (Nazional Socialismus) and the Soviet Union internalist socialists.
      The terrorist organization ISIS is, I believe, enslaving people, as well as the government of the Sudan.
      Recently, an American woman who came from Egypt had been sold into slavery by her father so pay off a debt. Her owners brought her to California, where she was treated like a slave, and an anonymous tip led to her being freed.
      Not all slavery has been of blacks. The great Greek philosopher Epictetus was a slave. Plato was kidnapped and enslaved, freed by being bought out by friends.

    • Wellington says

      Oct 18, 2014 at 8:49 pm

      Solid comment, PAthena. You are quite correct that not all slavery has been of blacks. Actually, not even close, though enslaving “the other,” whether “the other” be of the “wrong” race, ethnicity, region, gender, etc. has been a major factor over the millennia in the heinous institution which is slavery——but not the only factor since in one society after another those enslaved were not of a different race, ethnicity, gender, tribe, clan, etc.

      Slavery through the ages ordinarily began in most societies with prisoners of war (POWs). Then it branched out to debtors, to the destitute, to minorities of different kinds and so on. No region of the earth has been immune to slavery, but to the great credit of the Western world, this world was the first to realize slavery was a grave moral wrong and thereafter this same world took the most important and boldest steps to end it. Of course, in silly pc/mc world, Western Civilization doesn’t get any credit for this.

      Respecting slavery in the Islamic world, it has existed from the get-go and I have no doubt whatsoever, but for the Western world—-a vastly different world from the Islamic world—-,it would still thrive in Islamland without any pretense that it doesn’t. Of course, it still exists in Islamland but with the pretense that it doesn’t. All of which tends to demonstrate that the ethics of the Western world, which is to say the Classical, Judeo-Christian world, far supersede any morality that exists in the Mohammedan world. Easily so. No contest.

  5. Miguel says

    Oct 18, 2014 at 11:09 pm

    One of them has accomplish his mission and went to heaven according to the Koran when he went to Texas as ISIS first attack on America and their main goal is for the United States of America to become the number one country in the world with the most Ebola deaths !

  6. gp says

    Oct 19, 2014 at 12:31 am

    Why is this vile murderous savage still alive? Post a large bounty on this monsters head, then get a bead on him and bomb him and several hundred of his closest friends straight to hell, where his father, Satan, is waiting for him.

  7. fair_dinkum says

    Oct 19, 2014 at 6:56 am

    the scale of horror in Africa is at least as bad as the horror of ISIL.

    it amazes me that so many africans ARE moslems. the slave trade supplying africans to the middle east is centuries old and continues to this day.

    eritria

  8. Jeff says

    Oct 19, 2014 at 11:46 am

    When Islamists want a truce or cease fire, is when efforts should be doubled to wipe them out.

    • Mirren10 says

      Oct 19, 2014 at 7:33 pm

      **Exactly** !!

      • dumbledoresarmy says

        Oct 20, 2014 at 6:19 am

        Seconding that.

        I’m a nice middle-aged Christian matron – but I *have* read some history, including military history. I used to read my dad’s J E McDonnell war books (novels set in the Australian navy in the Pacific theatre of WWII).

        And the moment I found out about the Treaty of Hudaybiyya, and how Muslims are only supposed to ask for “peace” ( a truce treaty) if they think they need a timeout to regroup and rearm, and that they’ll only *use* any such “peace” as a timeout and that they will *break* the “truce” the *instant* they think they are strong enough, then it seemed to me to be perfectly obvious that non-Muslim generals and diplomats the *world over* need to treat all Muslim offers of “talks” and calls for “truce” or “ceasefire” as a cue to …go in faster and hit HARDER.

        If that is at all possible.

        (There *may* be circumstances, alas, when the infidel side, also, needs to regroup and rearm and therefore, for its own tactical reasons, accepts the offer; but if they agree to a “truce” with a Muslim entity they should do so with their eyes wide open, *fully aware* that their acceptance of the truce will be itself interpreted by the Muslim party as a sign of weakness; that the “truce” won’t last and *cannot* be relied upon; and that they must therefore be grimly prepared at all times to repel any Muslim doublecross or sneak attack that suddenly takes place.

        This sort of thing – “how to fight when your opponent is Muslim” – ought to be the *first * thing that all aspiring young officers learn in their very first day at Sandhurst, or Duntroon, or West Point, or anywhere else in the entire non-Muslim world, not excluding Russia and China.

        I don’t know why our military tacticians – the ‘we’ of that ‘our’ being “all infidels everywhere who have ever been attacked by Muslims whether from within or from without” – do not seem to have worked these basic principles out, given that Muslims have been waging jihad either by direct assault or by infiltration-and-subversion-and/or insurrection/ sedition, for no less than 1400 years in all directions; but it’s pretty plain they haven’t…or they wouldn’t keep on getting blindsided by it.

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