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Boko Haram Cannot Be Crushed By December by blezzy080: 7:54am On Nov 27, 2015 |
Lagos — The military cannot meet the president's December
deadline to crush Boko Haram's Islamic uprising, and Nigerians
must expect suicide bombings to continue, a government
spokesman said Thursday.
Air Commodore Yusuf Anas of the Center for Crisis
Communication said the deadline "may be unrealistic" and warned
Nigerians not to view December as a "sacrosanct date when all
suicide bombings will end."
The 6-year-old uprising already has killed 20,000 people and
driven 2.3 million from the homes.
"The timeline on when to stop the insurgents from activating
sleeper cells and detonating bombs into soft targets in any part of
the country, especially in the frontline states, is therefore not
tenable," Anas said.
Forces from Nigeria and neighboring Chad earlier this year drove
the extremists out of areas in which they had proclaimed an
Islamic caliphate. Recently, the Nigerian Air Force and ground
troops have reported destroying numerous Boko Haram camps
and freeing more than 1,000 kidnap victims.
In June, President Muhammadu Buhari ordered the military to
crush the insurgency by December, but the extremists have
pushed back with village raids and urban suicide bombings that
have killed more than 1,500 people.
They have also continued to strike in neighboring countries. On
Wednesday night, suspected Boko Haram militants raided a town
in southeast Niger, killing 18 people and kidnapping a 3-year-old
girl, according to a statement read out on state TV Thursday
night.
Last month, Buhari told the commander of the U.S. Africa
Command, Gen. David Rodriguez, that improved training,
weapons, logistics and welfare had put Nigerian forces in a
stronger position.
Boko Haram was named the world's most deadly extremist group
in the Global Terrorism Index last week, with 6,644 deaths
attributed to it in 2014 — more than any other extremist group. |
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Re: Boko Haram Cannot Be Crushed By December by boboLIL(m): 8:12am On Nov 27, 2015 |
Na. Bo0hari boys naw,,wo go even crush them? |
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