The idea is to terrorize the populace and destabilize the government, so that it ultimately falls and a caliphate can be established.
“Make ready for them all that you can of force and of warhorses, so that by them you may strike terror in the enemy of Allah and your enemy…” (Qur’an 8:60)
“three [sic] civilians were killed in an attack near Niamey,” Actual News Magazine, January 13, 2024 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
Two gendarmes and five other civilians were also injured, the Niger Press Agency announced on Saturday, which designated the attackers as “terrorists”.
Three civilians were killed Thursday evening during an attack on a gendarmerie post on the outskirts of Niamey, the capital of Niger, a country prey to jihadist violence, the Niger Press Agency (ANP) reported on Saturday, January 13. ). “Around twenty terrorists arrived camouflaged under the tarpaulins of two vehicles and burst into the post [des gendarmes] opening fire with machine guns, shouting Allah Akbar”said quoting “a safe source”.
According to the agency, two gendarmes and five other civilians were also injured. Despite “the strong response of the gendarmes”, the attackers took away a gendarmerie vehicle, and two belonging to individuals. The attack targeted the gendarmerie post in the village of Laoudou, 17 km south of Niamey, on the road leading to W Park, straddling the borders of Niger, Burkina Faso and Benin….
Hoi Polloi says
Religion of Peace, once again.