If only the poor dears hadn’t encountered so much “Islamophobia,” they might be stockbrokers today, instead of jihadis. If only the West would fork over more “aid money” (jizya); then this sort of thing wouldn’t happen. Right?
“At least 19 killed in Burkina Faso terrorist attack,” Hamas-linked Associated Press, November 15, 2021 (thanks to Henry):
A terrorist attack on a military police post in northern Burkina Faso killed at least 19 officers and one civilian on Sunday, the Ministry of Security said.
The attack took place in Inata town in Soum province, near Burkina Faso’s border with Mali, Minister of Security Maxime Kone said on state television.
The post “faced a cowardly and barbaric attack, an attack during which our forces, with a lot of dignity and devotion kept their position during the fighting”, he said.
Mr Kone told the Associated Press that the death toll was likely to increase.
A soldier said many bodies had been seen by personnel in a military helicopter flown over the site.
The attack is the latest in a series of violent incidents across the country, which for more than five years has been overrun by militant groups linked to Al Qaeda and the ISIS.
Thousands of people have been killed and more than 1.4 million displaced by the violence.
The has been a sharp increase in fighting in Soum province, one of the centres of the violence, after months of relative calm owing to negotiations between the national security service and some extremist groups amid last year’s presidential election.
But since October, explosives have been found outside the main town of Djibo and there has been a resurgence of checkpoints set up by extremists where people have been kidnapped, a local government official said.
The latest attack was a significant blow because the military police detachment in Inata was the only one that stood its ground for two years while troops at surrounding bases retreated when extremist violence escalated, said Heni Nsaibia, senior researcher at the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project….