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Islamic State in Nigeria May Have Killed 2,000 People on Wednesday
Posted By Daniel Greenfield On January 10, 2015 @ 10:28 am In The Point | 12 Comments
While we look away, Obama’s favorite terrorists in Nigeria are practicing their Religion of Genocide.
Terror experts and U.S. officials say a Boko Haram assault Wednesday on a small city on the northern border of Nigeria may have killed as many as 2,000 civilians.
Many survivors fled into the nearby waters of Lake Chad, where some drowned and where others remain marooned on small islands, menaced by hippos, said a local government official.
In an interview with the BBC, district leader Musa Alhaji Bukar also estimated that 2,000 residents of Baga and 16 nearby towns had been killed by the Islamist terror group, and that Baga was now “virtually nonexistent,” which would make the massacre among the most deadly terror attacks in history.
American experts say such reports are credible and that officials from Nigeria’s central government, who have put the body count in the hundreds, are prone to underestimating death tolls.
A U.S. counterterrorism official said the tally of 2,000 deaths “may not be that far off.”
Don’t worry, Obama Inc will spring into action to attack the Nigerian military for violating Muslim human rights while insisting that appeasement of Muslims is the only answer.
According to the U.S. counterterrorism official, Boko Haram went door-to-door killing families, then strategically placed improvised explosive devices in the streets to funnel survivors into areas where firing squads were pre-positioned. “They were mowed down” by automatic weapons fire, the official said.
The villages were then set on fire, and militants moved on to other areas to repeat the process, officials told BBC.
Campbell said that Boko Haram now controls all the border crossings in the area between Nigeria and its neighbors, Cameroon, Chad and Niger. Only last week, Campbell noted, Boko Haram leader Abubakr Shekhau released a video in which he called for attacks in Cameroon, which like Nigeria is run by a Christian government but has a substantial Muslim population.
In addition, the officials and experts agreed the attacks give Boko Haram a strategic advantage should they want to gain control of Maiduguri, a city of one million in the northeast corner of Nigeria, and the city where Boko Haram was born. Campbell said that he doesn’t believe that Boko Haram could overrun Maiduguri, but suggests they could control it — with sleeper cells already inside the city, some disguised as refugees from nearby fighting.
“When you suggest that Maiduguri is the target, understand this: Boko Haram is already in Maiduguri, with reports of black flags flying over abandoned government buildings,” said Campbell, referring to the black and white radical Islamist banner.
Now we have another Islamic State to deal with.
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