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roadmaster
10-04-2012, 10:47 PM
http://www.christianpost.com/news/christian-students-executed-by-boko-haram-in-nigeria-believers-pray-for-change-of-heart-82646/


The killings reportedly occurred in the late night hours on Oct. 1, when masked gunmen went door-to-door in the off-campus housing section of Federal Polytechnic College in Mubi, a city in the remote Adamawa State in northeastern Nigeria.

Peter1469
10-05-2012, 04:41 AM
That is a shame. Hopefully the US doesn't waste its blood and treasure there.

shaarona
10-05-2012, 04:47 AM
http://www.christianpost.com/news/christian-students-executed-by-boko-haram-in-nigeria-believers-pray-for-change-of-heart-82646/


The killings reportedly occurred in the late night hours on Oct. 1, when masked gunmen went door-to-door in the off-campus housing section of Federal Polytechnic College in Mubi, a city in the remote Adamawa State in northeastern Nigeria.






Boko Haram is loosely translated, western education forbidden.

They probably are the culprits.

waltky
03-28-2016, 02:45 PM
Boko Haram incinerates 86 children...
:shocked:
#PrayForNigeria: 86 Children burnt to death
25 March 2016 - A image which shows how an alleged 86 children were burnt to death by Boko Haram made Twitter react today. Earlier this week, a terrorist bombing in Brussels, Belgium had shaken up the world and a few days later we have another terrorist attack being brought to our attention. It is been said that this attack happened a month back yet the facts have not yet been confirmed. Regardless, it is the image which started the hashtag #PrayForNigeria.


This what people are saying:

https://twitter.com/Marliesxx/status/713299478401454080

Wtf how was nothing said about this??! #PrayForNigeria

— JOSEPH (@sky_wonderful) March 25, 2016

My heart goes out to Nigeria. Absolutely horrific. #PrayForNigeria

— علياء عيسى الحزامي (@AliaAlHazami) March 25, 2016

These are 86 burnt bodies of future leaders, promising children and a weeping mother #PrayForNigeria pic.twitter.com/GWR6kHMHOc


http://connect.citizen.co.za/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2016/03/Nigeria.png?02d7b9

— BennyCapricorn (@BennyCapricorn) March 25, 2016

The sad reality of the world and it's media.#PrayForNigeria pic.twitter.com/fUSwzzbB3k

— D.C. (@DarrenConnolly_) March 25, 2016

I see humans, but I don't see humanity #PrayForNigeria

— ️ ‏ (@kierunosaur) March 25, 2016

http://connect.citizen.co.za/54902/prayfornigeria/#.Vva3pGC9veU.facebook

MisterVeritis
03-28-2016, 04:13 PM
Boko Haram incinerates 86 children...
:shocked:
#PrayForNigeria: 86 Children burnt to death
25 March 2016 - A image which shows how an alleged 86 children were burnt to death by Boko Haram made Twitter react today. Earlier this week, a terrorist bombing in Brussels, Belgium had shaken up the world and a few days later we have another terrorist attack being brought to our attention. It is been said that this attack happened a month back yet the facts have not yet been confirmed. Regardless, it is the image which started the hashtag #PrayForNigeria.
The US needs no Muslims. This is what Islam brings. This is what the Quran requires.

waltky
04-18-2016, 03:20 PM
Samantha Power on the ground in Africa...
:cool2:
Boko Haram still a threat months after 'technical victory'
Apr 18,`16 -- Here on the front line against Boko Haram, no one boasts of having "technically" won the war. More than four months after Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari made such a claim, the extremists still crisscross international borders, avoiding direct confrontations with U.S.-backed African forces while refocusing on soft targets like marketplaces and mosques with little to no protection.


The group may be gone from major cities, but in the countryside it poses a constant threat. And for the hundreds of thousands of refugees and impoverished villagers surrounded by fighting in the isolated northern reaches of Cameroon, terror and hunger form daily challenges to their survival. "All of you who are attempting to fight this terror, the United States stands with you," said Samantha Power, America's U.N. ambassador, making a rare visit by any foreign dignitary, let alone a U.S. Cabinet member, to this parched, dusty landscape dotted by thatched-roofed huts and meandering goats and donkeys. Underscoring the insecurity, Power traveled with a large contingent of U.S. and Cameroonian special forces. A Cameroonian helicopter monitored overhead.


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U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power speaks to members of civil society groups at the U.S. Embassy in Yaounde, Cameroon, Sunday, April 17, 2016. Power is visiting Cameroon, Chad, and Nigeria to highlight the growing threat Boko Haram poses to the Lake Chad Basin region.

But in a tragic accident, an armored jeep in Power's motorcade stuck a 7-year-old boy who darted onto the road, killing him instantly. She traveled back to the scene of the incident several hours later to offer her condolences to his parents and "our grief and heartbreak." Power's larger goal of pairing military efforts with greater development of West Africa's impoverished, Boko Haram-ravaged regions is daunting. They've suffered generations of neglect. In Maroua, an enclave some 800 miles from the Cameroonian capital sandwiched between Chad and Nigeria, shortages of water, schools and investment are chronic.

Activists, opposition politicians and Muslim clerics say the extremists will draw Maroua's disaffected youth to their ranks as long as economic opportunities are limited and security forces continue committing indiscriminate atrocities while trying to stamp out the insurgency. Military force must be part of the counter-terror effort, Power told reporters. "They have guns. The have suicide vests. They have armored vehicles," she said.

MORE (http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AF_UNITED_STATES_BOKO_HARAM?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-04-18-15-24-46)

Boris The Animal
04-18-2016, 03:22 PM
This is exactly what Liberals want. To eliminate Christians who don't fall in line with their sick ideology.

Peter1469
04-18-2016, 04:05 PM
Samantha Power- liberal war hawk.


Samantha Power on the ground in Africa...
:cool2:
Boko Haram still a threat months after 'technical victory'
Apr 18,`16 -- Here on the front line against Boko Haram, no one boasts of having "technically" won the war. More than four months after Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari made such a claim, the extremists still crisscross international borders, avoiding direct confrontations with U.S.-backed African forces while refocusing on soft targets like marketplaces and mosques with little to no protection.

Dangermouse
04-18-2016, 04:47 PM
"Soft targets like marketplaces and mosques" doesn't sound like Christians are especially under threat as the OP implies.

domer76
04-18-2016, 05:08 PM
This is exactly what Liberals want. To eliminate Christians who don't fall in line with their sick ideology.

Yep. We want you first.

Boris The Animal
04-18-2016, 07:05 PM
Yep. We want you first.Thanks for confirming my suspicions, Dumber76

waltky
04-12-2017, 03:45 AM
Boko Haram increasingly using children as bombers...
http://www.politicalwrinkles.com/images/smilies/eek.gif
UNICEF: Boko Haram increasingly using children as bombers
Apr 11,`17 -- Radical Islamic militants from Boko Haram are increasingly forcing children to carry out bombings, with the number of attacks since January already nearly reaching the total for all of last year, according to a report released Wednesday by the U.N. children's agency.


UNICEF says at least 117 attacks have been carried out by youth in the Lake Chad basin region since 2014, with nearly 80 percent of the bombs strapped to girls, who were sometimes drugged before their missions. The very sight of children near marketplaces and checkpoints is sparking fear, according to Marie-Pierre Poirier, UNICEF's regional director for West and Central Africa. As a result, nearly 1,500 children were detained last year across Nigeria, Cameroon, Niger and Chad. "These children are victims, not perpetrators," Poirier said. "Forcing or deceiving them into committing such horrific acts is reprehensible."


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Police officers stand guard following a suicide bomb explosion at a bus station in Kano, Nigeria. Radical Islamic militants from Boko Haram are increasingly forcing children to carry out bombings, with the number of attacks since January already nearly reaching the total for all of last year, according to a report released Wednesday, April 12, 2017 by the U.N. children’s agency.

Wednesday's report coincides with this weeks' third anniversary of the mass abduction of Chibok schoolgirls by Boko Haram, which has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State. The mass abduction of 276 girls from a boarding school in Nigeria mobilized an international campaign to find and free the girls, many of whom were forced into marriages with fighters and became pregnant. Dozens quickly escaped, and 21 were freed in October through negotiations with Boko Haram mediated by the Swiss government and the International Committee of the Red Cross. The government denied a ransom was paid and that it freed some detained Boko Haram fighters in exchange for the girls. At that time, officials said they were pressing on with negotiations and expected the release of a second group but no more have been freed.

UNICEF emphasized Wednesday that beyond the high-profile Chibok abductions, the practice of kidnapping children and forcing them to associate with the armed group has been prevalent. "Young girls are spotted in the markets, and nighttime raids drag them from their beds. In some cases, parents are killed in front of the girls during the process," it said. "This is typically followed by an extended journey to a Boko Haram base in the forest where the girls are forced into early marriage and sexual slavery." UNICEF also called for the community reintegration of children who were once under Boko Haram's control, saying many are stigmatized and feared. However, a $154 million appeal last year for the Lake Chad basin region remains only 40 percent funded, the agency said.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AF_NIGERIA_CHILD_BOMBERS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2017-04-11-21-36-54

See also:

Trump to Sell Attack Planes to Nigeria for Boko Haram Fight
10 Apr 2017 | WASHINGTON — The Trump administration will move forward with the sale despite concerns over abuses committed by Nigeria's security forces.


The Trump administration will move forward with the sale of high-tech aircraft to Nigeria for its campaign against Boko Haram Islamic extremists despite concerns over abuses committed by the African nation's security forces, according to U.S. officials. Congress is expected to receive formal notification within weeks, setting in motion a deal with Nigeria that the Obama administration had planned to approve at the very end of Barack Obama's presidency. The arrangement will call for Nigeria to purchase up to 12 Embraer A-29 Super Tucano aircraft with sophisticated targeting gear for nearly $600 million, one of the officials said. The officials were not authorized to discuss the terms of the sale publicly and requested anonymity to speak about internal diplomatic conversations.

Though President Donald Trump has made clear his intention to approve the sale of the aircraft, the National Security Council is still working on the issue. Military sales to several other countries are also expected to be approved but are caught up in an ongoing White House review. Nigeria has been trying to buy the aircraft since 2015. The Nigerian air force has been accused of bombing civilian targets at least three times in recent years. In the worst incident, a fighter jet on Jan. 17 repeatedly bombed a camp at Rann, near the border with Cameroon, where civilians had fled from Boko Haram. Between 100 and 236 civilians and aid workers were killed, according to official and community leaders' counts. That bombing occurred on the same day the Obama administration intended to officially notify Congress the sale would go forward. Instead, it was abruptly put on hold, according to an individual who worked on the issue during Obama's presidency. Days later, Trump was inaugurated.

Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, said this past week that he supported the A-29 deal to Nigeria as well as the sale of U.S.-made fighter jets to Bahrain that had been stripped of human rights caveats imposed by the Obama administration. Under Obama, the U.S. said Bahrain failed to make promised political and human rights reforms after its Sunni-ruled government crushed Arab Spring protests five years ago. "We need to deal with human rights issues, but not on weapons sales," Corker said. The State Department said in a 2016 report that the Nigerian government has taken "few steps to investigate or prosecute officials who committed violations, whether in the security forces or elsewhere in the government, and impunity remained widespread at all levels of government."

Amnesty International has accused Nigeria's military of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the extrajudicial killings of an estimated 8,000 Boko Haram suspects. President Muhammadu Buhari promised to investigate the alleged abuses after he won office in March 2015, but no soldier has been prosecuted and thousands of people remain in illegal military detention. Nigeria's military has denied the allegations. The A-29 sale would improve the U.S. relationship with Nigeria, Africa's largest consumer market of 170 million people, the continent's biggest economy and its second-largest oil producer. Nigeria also is strategically located on the edge of the Sahel, the largely lawless semi-desert region bridging north and sub-Saharan Africa where experts warn Islamic extremists like the Nigeria-based Boko Haram may expand their reach.

MORE (http://www.military.com/daily-news/2017/04/10/trump-sell-attack-planes-nigeria-boko-haram-fight.html)

waltky
09-10-2018, 12:13 AM
Boko Haram sacks base, captures town in Nigeria...
:shocked:
Boko Haram sacks base, captures town in Nigeria
Mon, Sep 10, 2018 - Boko Haram militants were on Saturday in control of a town in northeast Nigeria after sacking a military base, in the latest attack that raises questions about claims they are weakened to the point of defeat.​​


Local officials and security sources said scores of fighters believed to be loyal to a Boko Haram faction backed by the Islamic State (IS) group overran troops in Gudumbali. At least eight civilians were believed to have been killed, while thousands of others fled to neighboring towns. Gudumbali, in the Guzamala area of Borno state, is Boko Haram’s first major seizure in two years and comes after a series of attacks on troops. The authorities and the military have been encouraging people displaced by violence in the long-running conflict to return to Guzamala, insisting it is safe to do so.



However, aid agencies have said minimum levels of basic services, including shelter, civilian infrastructure and security are still lacking. Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, a former army general, was elected in 2015 on a promise to defeat Boko Haram and is seeking a second term of office at polls in February next year. The Gudumbali attack will again raise questions about his claims to have “technically defeated” the group and that Borno State was now in a “post-conflict stabilization phase.” An official of the Guzamala local government area, of which Gudumbali is the headquarters, confirmed that troops had been pushed out of the town and Boko Haram was in “full control.”


A military source in the state capital, Maiduguri, said the attack began at about 7:50pm on Friday and lasted until the early hours of Saturday, “when troops were forced to withdraw.” “So far eight civilians, who were errand boys for troops, were believed to have been killed in the attack,” local civilian militia member Musa Ari said. However, “most civilians were spared, because the attack was targeted at the military base,” he added. The IS-backed faction — known as Islamic State West Africa Province — has vowed to hit only “hard” military or government targets.


It is reportedly trying to get the support of local populations in the Muslim-majority region. Ari said soldiers and residents fled Gudumbali to Damasak, about 80km away, on the border with Niger. Others escaped south toward Gajiram, where nine soldiers were killed in a similar attack in June.


http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2018/09/10/2003700156