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Nigeria: Boko Haram jihadis attack village, seize girls — 2 girls dead, 76 rescued

Feb 22, 2018 9:04 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

The Nigerian military rescued 76 schoolgirls and recovered the bodies of two others….after the students went missing during a Boko Haram attack on a village.

The rescue drew cheers of relief, amid the grief and anxiety for the two girls and 13 others missing. The seizure of these girls recalled Boko Haram’s brazen 2014 abduction of over 276 schoolgirls (90% of them Christian) in the Nigerian town of Chibok. They raided the girls’ dorms and loaded them on to trucks. While a few escaped or were rescued, most were auctioned off to Boko Haram jihadists. The group’s leader, Abubakar Shekau, who has threatened to kill “all Christians,” stated his claim to the right to enslave infidel girls:

“I took the girls….By Allah I will sell them in the marketplace…I will marry off a woman at the age of 12. I will marry off a girl at the age of nine.”

Boko Haram was founded in 2002 by Mohammed Yusuf to “seek the establishment of an Islamic state in Nigeria,” spread the Sharia,  and ban all Western education. Stats as of last summer indicate that the group has killed over 20,000 people and displaced more than 2 million. In 2015, it pledged allegiance to the Islamic State.

Boko Haram is financed by a global network of supporters and members, raking in about $10,000,000 USD per month. It has a net worth of $25,000,000,000.  The group’s significant support unmistakably points to the vastness of the global jihad, the need to investigate its multitudinous players, and the urgency to protect Western nations, especially in the current climate, in which anything goes for most Western leaders, if it is packaged under the guise of multiculturalism.

“Boko Haram school attack: two girls killed and 76 rescued, official says,” Reuters, February 22, 2018:

The Nigerian military rescued 76 schoolgirls and recovered the bodies of two others on Wednesday, after the students went missing during a Boko Haram attack on a village, three parents, a resident and a local government official have told Reuters.

At least 13 students might still be missing, and Reuters was unable to determine how the two girls died. Earlier on Wednesday, sources told Reuters that 91 people were unaccounted for after a roll-call at their school on Tuesday.

“Everybody is celebrating their coming with songs and praises to God almighty,” said Babagana Umar, one of the parents whose daughter had disappeared. “The only sad news is that two girls were dead and no explanation.”

The rescued girls were returned to the village of Dapchi late on Wednesday, Umar and other residents said.

Islamist insurgent group Boko Haram attacked Dapchi in the north-eastern state of Yobe on Monday evening.

Police and state officials said on Wednesday there was no evidence the girls had been abducted, though the Yobe government later said in a statement the military had rescued some of the students from Boko Haram.

Nigerian authorities often deny or downplay such incidents, including the Chibok girl kidnapping and more recent abductions, as well as the scale of Boko Haram attacks in the north-east.

Nigeria is still haunted by Boko Haram’s abduction of more than 270 schoolgirls from the town of Chibok in 2014. That case drew global attention to the nine-year insurgency, which has sparked what the United Nations has called one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.

President Muhammadu Buhari sent his foreign and defence ministers to Yobe on Wednesday to investigate the situation, said information minister Lai Mohammed, who was also headed there. He declined to confirm whether any of the students were missing.

Parents and witnesses who told Reuters of the missing students spoke on condition of anonymity because they said they had been warned by Nigerian security and government officials not to disclose the disappearance.

The Boko Haram militants arrived in Dapchi on Monday evening in trucks, some mounted with heavy guns and painted in military camouflage, witnesses told Reuters.

They went directly to the school, shooting sporadically, sending students and teachers fleeing, the witnesses said, adding that some people had returned to Dapchi after spending the night hiding in the bush.

Yobe state police commissioner Sumonu Abdulmaliki said on Tuesday Boko Haram had also abducted three people from nearby Gaidam.

Since Boko Haram began its insurgency in 2009, more than 20,000 people have been killed and 2 million forced to flee their homes in the north-east of Africa’s most populous nation.

Of about 270 girls abducted from their school in Chibok in April 2014, about 60 escaped soon afterwards and others have since been released after mediation. About 100 are still believed to be in captivity.

Last month, Boko Haram released a video purporting to show some of the Chibok girls still in its custody, saying they did not wish to return home….

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Filed Under: Boko Haram, Featured, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), Muslim persecution of Christians, Nigeria, sexual assault and rape, slavery Tagged With: Dapchi, Mohammed Yusuf


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Comments

  1. Bob Carrillo says

    Feb 22, 2018 at 9:17 am

    There is a special place in hell for this inhuman, and sub-human trash…

    • Mac-101 says

      Feb 22, 2018 at 10:05 am

      Yup, and the Left can NOT git enough of this Satanic garbage! Just shows you they are ALL of Satan!

  2. LeftisruiningCanada says

    Feb 22, 2018 at 4:08 pm

    mohammad, allah’s glove puppet.

    allah, satan’s favorite cameo.

  3. Eric jones says

    Feb 22, 2018 at 8:15 pm

    How will Nigeria defeat Boko Haram when the president of Nigeria is a Muslim?

    Eric

  4. MFritz says

    Feb 23, 2018 at 1:24 am

    And, once again, not a word from Soros-ibrahim. Obviously not from Nigeria.

  5. Just A Concerned Citizen says

    Feb 23, 2018 at 1:31 am

    Couldn’t help but notice that hashtag campaigns weren’t terribly instrumental in the rescue.

  6. Ray Jarman says

    Feb 23, 2018 at 2:30 am

    270 girls abducted from their school in Chibok in April 2014 and what was the White House’s response? Michelle’s “Bring Back Our Girls” was for a day and then forgotten. During Mrs. Clinton’s time on the 7th floor at Foggy Bottom, she refused to have Boko Haram designated as a terrorist organization. During eight years, the Obama/Clinton foreign policy was latitudinarian at best and denigrated our stance in the world. Just like his “red line,” he abdicated his job. For the return of these school girls, I am really happy but if the Nigerian Army had performed its duty in the past, this incident would not have occurred.

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