Tuesday, October 22, 2013
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2013/10/savage-jihadists-shoot-burn-and-hack-to-death-19-in-nigeria-.htmlSavage Jihadists Shoot, Burn and Hack to Death 19 in Nigeria
You have to search long and hard to find this front page news story anywhere, which speaks to the power of the Islamic supremacists.
BBC coverage was all of four sentences (never mentioning that it was the devout Muslim group Boko Haram), but they devote millions of column inches to ....islamophobia.
Boko Haram (Western education is sinful) has slaughtered more than 12,000 in the cause of Islam, and still Obama refuses to designate those savages a terrorist group.
"Boko Haram Islamists kill 19 in Nigeria’s northeast" Japan Times, October 21, 2013
KANO, NIGERIA – Boko Haram gunmen dressed in military uniform on Sunday killed 19 people near the Nigerian border with Cameroon in the restive northeast, where the Islamists have carried out a series of deadly attacks, residents and a survivor said.
Motorcycle-riding gunmen armed with Kalashnikovs blocked the highway near the town of Logumani, 30 km from the border, shooting and hacking to death 19 motorists and burning three trucks, they said.
“We have recovered 19 dead bodies from the scene of the attack by Boko Haram gunmen,” said Musa Abur, leader of a civilian vigilante group in the area. “Five of the victims, who included two truck drivers and their assistants, were shot dead, while the rest were slaughtered.” He said the gunmen had attacked the border town of Gamboru Ngala near Logumani late Friday but were repelled by soldiers and local vigilantes.
A passenger who survived the attack gave a similar account. “We were asked to get out of our vehicles and lie face down by nine men dressed as soldiers who blocked the road around 5:00 am,” said the man, who gave his name as Buba. “They shot dead five people and went about slaughtering 14 others before someone called them on the phone that soldiers were heading their way,” he said. “They abandoned the rest of us and sped into the bush on their motorcycles.” Buba said he had been was shot in the leg.
He said the attack bore the hallmarks of Boko Haram. “We knew they were Boko Haram from their appearance. Soldiers don’t wear beards, but some of the gunmen were bearded,” he said. “Everyone in this area knows Boko Haram is on the prowl, raiding villages and attacking vehicles. It has become a common occurrence.”
The military authorities in the region could not be immediately reached for comment. The phone network has been switched off in much of the northeast since emergency measures were declared mid-May at the start of a military offensive against the insurgents.
Defense officials say the offensive against Boko Haram has decimated the group and scattered its fighters across remote parts of the northeast, the insurgents’ traditional stronghold.
Military authorities have encouraged the formation of vigilante groups to help flush out the Islamists.
But Boko Haram has stepped up deadly attacks on civilians and schools in reprisals against vigilantes cooperating with the military.
The group says it is fighting to create an Islamic state in Nigeria’s mainly Muslim north, but it is believed to be made up of different factions with varying aims.
Boko Haram has attacked churches, mosques, newspaper offices, the security forces, politicians and a U.N. building, among other targets.
Nigeria is Africa’s most populous country and top oil producer, roughly divided between a mainly Muslim north and predominantly Christian south.
