“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….
mummymovie says
I wonder what their motive is?
mortimer says
Obviously, the motive is of no interest to police or it is simply another case of ‘workplace violence’.
(sarc/off)
I wonder about leftists says
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!
mummymovie says
They do seem to have advanced a bit from the bulk second-hand American t-shirt delivery realm.
Phil says
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
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
“… 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
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
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.
gravenimage says
Niger: Islamic jihadis storm military base, murder 12 paramilitary police
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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.
Voytek Gagalka says
Niger again! And to this Islamic pest-hole our president sends troops to do exactly what? “Niger-nation building”?
Debi Brand says
“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
Obama sent those troops, not DT.
Matthieu Baudin says
“… 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.
MFritz says
Another place that will go only worse and worse.
Eur says
Nothing to do with Islam… you know.
Carolyne says
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.