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Niger: Islamic jihadis storm military base, murder 12 paramilitary police

Oct 22, 2017 4:27 pm By Robert Spencer

“Security sources say that militants in the latest attack were heavily armed with rocket launchers and machine guns.”

Where do they get this materiel? Despite being condemned by virtually the entire world, the alleged misunderstanders of Islam have rich and powerful friends.

“Niger: At least 12 police killed as militants storm base,” BBC, October 21, 2017:

At least 12 paramilitary police in Niger have been killed in an attack by gunmen using pick-up trucks and motorcycles on their base in the western town of Ayorou, officials say.

Soldiers pursued the attackers, and reportedly clashed with them near the border with Mali.

Several jihadist groups and other armed forces operate in the area.

The attack was close to where militants killed four US soldiers in an ambush earlier this month….

Militants in the area include Boko Haram fighters from Nigeria and radicals linked to al-Qaeda and so-called Islamic State, who are mostly thought to be based either in neighbouring Mali or the similarly unstable Libya to the north.

Security sources say that militants in the latest attack were heavily armed with rocket launchers and machine guns. They carried out the assault using four vehicles, each carrying about seven fighters.

The identity of the attackers is not yet clear. Officials say they launched their attack on Ayorou – about 40km (25 miles) inside Niger – from Mali.

Military vehicles are reported to have been seized by the gunmen, at least one of whom was reported to have been killed in the exchange of fire….

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  1. mummymovie says

    Oct 22, 2017 at 5:00 pm

    I wonder what their motive is?

    • mortimer says

      Oct 23, 2017 at 11:14 am

      Obviously, the motive is of no interest to police or it is simply another case of ‘workplace violence’.

      (sarc/off)

  2. I wonder about leftists says

    Oct 22, 2017 at 5:05 pm

    They have very good weapons and all that stuff and there funded by all those rich muslimcountries. And those countries like that, because then they don’t sit on the necks of their own countries and they don’t have to do anything for them. But time comes for all of the nations to meet themselves and again, that will not be nice and pretty!

  3. mummymovie says

    Oct 22, 2017 at 5:11 pm

    They do seem to have advanced a bit from the bulk second-hand American t-shirt delivery realm.

  4. Phil says

    Oct 22, 2017 at 8:26 pm

    Well this is a direct and fully anticipated consequence of Hillary and Obama using our military and FBI propaganda machine to take out Qaddafi in Libya.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 22, 2017 at 8:45 pm

      I am *no* fan of Hillary, Phil–but the idea that violent Jihad in Africa was created by Hillary Clinton is much mistaken. It considerably precedes her.

      • Debi Brand says

        Oct 23, 2017 at 2:21 am

        “… violent Jihad in Africa was created by Hillary Clinton is much mistaken. It considerably precedes her.”

        Are you sure about that, g.i.? …

        • gravenimage says

          Oct 23, 2017 at 7:37 pm

          Yes, I am, Debi.

          Muslims have been enslaving and slaughtering Africans for centuries.

          That doesn’t mean that Clinton is helping matters, of course…

        • Debi Brand says

          Oct 24, 2017 at 1:37 am

          Indeed, g.i.

          My question above to your statement preceding it was, of course, sarcasm.

          Of course I believe, (sarcasm here) as you stated above, “violent Jihad in Africa was created by Hillary Clinton.”

          No doubt about it (sarcasm here), there and elsewhere.

  5. gravenimage says

    Oct 22, 2017 at 8:39 pm

    Niger: Islamic jihadis storm military base, murder 12 paramilitary police
    …………………..

    Niger is 94% Muslim–but it is still not Islamic enough for pious Muslims.

    There was a big push for the imposition of Shari’ah law in the 1990s–this is probably more of the same.

  6. Voytek Gagalka says

    Oct 22, 2017 at 9:18 pm

    Niger again! And to this Islamic pest-hole our president sends troops to do exactly what? “Niger-nation building”?

    • Debi Brand says

      Oct 23, 2017 at 2:25 am

      “Islamic pest-hole our president sends troops to do exactly what? ‘Niger-nation building’?”

      Indeed, but a nation, mind you, as the new, “Post-Saddam Iraq,” wherein only the new non-Islamic Islam is preached, taught, and practiced.

      • Wayne Petersen says

        Oct 23, 2017 at 2:35 pm

        Obama sent those troops, not DT.

  7. Matthieu Baudin says

    Oct 23, 2017 at 12:18 am

    “… Security sources say that militants in the latest attack were heavily armed with rocket launchers and machine guns. They carried out the assault using four vehicles, each carrying about seven fighters….”

    How are we ever going to turn off the tap of oil dollars, financing the purchase of this advanced weaponry, that’s subsequently spreading Jihad conquest ever deeper south into Africa.

  8. MFritz says

    Oct 23, 2017 at 3:13 am

    Another place that will go only worse and worse.

  9. Eur says

    Oct 23, 2017 at 7:06 am

    Nothing to do with Islam… you know.

  10. Carolyne says

    Oct 23, 2017 at 12:58 pm

    It was indeed Hillary Clinton’s “Arab Spring” which destabilized much of the Middle East. As far as I know, Hillary Clinton did not send Tomahawk missiles raining down on Niger.

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