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Chad Frees Most Of The 100 Boko Haram Captives by egift(m): 10:36am On Aug 16, 2014
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's Boko Haram militant group kidnapped 100 people earlier this month but most were freed by security forces from neighboring Chad, a Nigerian security official and a local self-defense member said Friday.

The abductions took place on Aug. 10 in Doron Baga in the Kukawa area near the border with Chad, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

He said the terrorists were stopped as they crossed the Chad border by Chadian soldiers who killed most of them and set free most of the captives.

Muhammed Gava, a member of the anti-Boko Haram vigilante movement, said 20 females and about 70 young men had been forced to board speed boats in Lake Chad, which lies on the border between Nigeria, Chad, Niger and Cameroon.

Nigeria's fight against the extremist group began in 2009 but hit the international spotlight in mid-April, when the militants kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls. The girls have still not been freed.

Boko Haram wants to enforce an Islamic state in Nigeria, whose population of more than 170 million people is almost evenly divided between a mainly Muslim north and largely Christian south.

The group has intensified its violent campaign this year and is increasingly targeting civilians. More than 4,000 people — mostly civilians — have been killed this year alone by all sides in the conflict, which include Nigerian security forces, Amnesty International said on Aug. 5. This compares to an estimated 3,600 people killed in the first four years of the Islamic insurgency.

While the group's attacks are mostly in northeast Nigeria, Boko Haram has detonated bombs as far away as Lagos, the commercial capital in Nigeria's southwest.

http://news.yahoo.com/boko-haram-kidnaps-100-chad-frees-most-captives-193815984.html
Re: Chad Frees Most Of The 100 Boko Haram Captives by Caseless: 11:33am On Aug 16, 2014
Cameroonian army, in less than 48hr fought to release the wife of the d cameroonian deputy prime minister kidnapped by boko haram. Now we have anti-boko haram vigillantee frm chad helping to free men and women kidnapped by some days ago by the same group.
But the nigerian military are ill-equipped to fight boko haram or stage any rescue operation to free chibok gals or any other victim in the hands of boko haram. The only place they(military) use their worn-out AK47 to show strength is where they're called by gej/pdp to intimidate voters or arrest opposition party members.

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Re: Chad Frees Most Of The 100 Boko Haram Captives by egift(m): 4:22pm On Aug 16, 2014
It is on record that the Nigerian Army has not rescue a single girl from the Chibok Girls.

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