MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, Aug 13 (Reuters) - The Nigerian Islamist
sect Boko Haram denied on Monday that 20 of its fighters had
been killed in a raid by security forces in the northeastern
city of Maiduguri the day before, saying all those killed were
civilians.

A security officer said a mixed military and police force,
tipped off about a Boko Haram meeting on Sunday, had been fired
on when they approached the site and killed 20 "terrorists" for
the loss of one soldier in the ensuing shootout.

The Islamist group, modelled on the Taliban, is fighting to
create an Islamic state in Nigeria, whose 160 million people are
split evenly between Christians and Muslims.
 Boko Haram spokesman Abu Qaqa told a teleconference for
journalists in Maiduguri, capital of Borno state and the sect's
heartland, that his fighters had not been meeting at the place
where the military said it killed them.

"They only succeeded in killing civilians," Qaqa said.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sns-rt-nigeria-violencel6e8jd4rn-20120813,0,4787613.story

Not good . . . . if true.

Why were they not taken alive - even a few of them to be interogated?

Worrying,

Sun of god: MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, Aug 13 (Reuters) - The Nigerian Islamist
sect Boko Haram denied on Monday that 20 of its fighters had
been killed in a raid by security forces in the northeastern
city of Maiduguri the day before, saying all those killed were
civilians.

A security officer said a mixed military and police force,
tipped off about a[b]Boko Haram meeting on Sunday, had been fired
on when they approached the site and killed 20 "terrorists" for
the loss of one soldier[/b] in the ensuing shootout.

The Islamist group, modelled on the Taliban, is fighting to
create an Islamic state in Nigeria, whose 160 million people are
split evenly between Christians and Muslims.
 Boko Haram spokesman Abu Qaqa told a teleconference for
journalists in Maiduguri, capital of Borno state and the sect's
heartland, that his fighters had not been meeting at the place
where the military said it killed them.

"They only succeeded in killing civilians," Qaqa said.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sns-rt-nigeria-violencel6e8jd4rn-20120813,0,4787613.story

reading the bolded again, i see propaganda rhetorics. So now civilians meeting, meet with guns and when police come to check, they open fire Oh we are in US where "civilians" meet wit guns? And for him acknowledging there was a shoot out, it means something occured.

hisblud: reading the bolded again, i see propaganda rhetorics. So now civilians meeting, meet with guns and when police come to check, they open fire Oh we are in US where "civilians" meet wit guns? And for him acknowledging there was a shoot out, it means something occured.

You just said my mind.

Very daft brain you have qaqa or
what do you call yourself?
For you to have lied against your
empty brain. .so you expect a
responsible civilian to exchange
bullets with the JTF. .? Now I know
you and your cohorts have no
hope here on earth and in the
grave you are digging for your
sorry generations to come. .
You really think your Virgins would
accept your
body. . . .Hahahaha. .you people
are seriously dozing on
okada. . .na maggots go eat una
skins. .thereafter eternal HELL filled
with plaques of fire will burn you
slowly and forever. . .
"one day. .na one day wen
bushmeat go kill 'in hunte

hmm...