Boko Haram kill one Chinese, 10 missing in Cameroon: Police

[longknife]

Last Updated: Saturday, May 17, 2014

Beijing: A Chinese national was killed and 10 others were feared kidnapped after an overnight attack in northern Cameroon believed to have been carried out by Boko Haram militants from Nigeria, a police said on Saturday

Okay, so I got this link from Jihad Watch. What caught my attention is the lead that makes one wonder what Chinese were doing there – and, more important – does this mean China might become involved with or send military personnel to the area?

Read more @ Boko Haram kill one Chinese, 10 missing in Cameroon: Police

 

[mamooth]

Gold mining is one possibility.

I know this from watching one of those reality TV shows on gold miners, where the men mining in Africa had had a small group of unpleasant Chinese neighbors on the claim next door.

And here's some better news.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/15/world/africa/nigeria-girls-abducted/
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Hotoro, Nigeria (CNN) -- Residents of three villages in northeastern Nigeria took security into their own hands this week, repelling attacks by Boko Haram insurgents and killing more than 200 of them, residents and officials said.
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The logistics of this area are daunting. Poor roads, yet cell/satellite phones are common. So any troop movements moving slowly over the ground get reported by the locals, and it's easy to set up ambushes ahead. That's what got Boko Haram here, and it's why the Nigerian Army doesn't want to set out on marches after Boko Haram. If you read the article, the Nigerian troops tried to frag an officer who sent them out.

 

[waltky]

Granny says dey done sh*t in dey's mess-kit dis time, takin' onna Chinese...

Suspected Boko Haram rebels attack Chinese work site in Cameroon
Sat May 17, 2014 - Suspected Boko Haram rebels from Nigeria have attacked a Chinese work site in northern Cameroon, killing at least one Cameroonian soldier and at least 10 people are believed to have been abducted, the regional governor and Cameroon state radio said.

The Chinese embassy in Yaounde confirmed the attack on Friday at a site near the town on Waza, 20 km (12 miles) from the Nigerian border close to the Sambisa forest, a Boko Haram stronghold. The Islamist group kidnapped more than 200 girls from a school on the Nigerian side of the border last month and Nigerian troops backed by foreign units are searching the area around the forest for them.

Friday's incident began when power was cut in the evening. A five-hour gunfight followed, a guard at the Waza National Park told Reuters. "Some of us decided to hide in the forest with the animals," the guard said, requesting anonymity. The governor of Cameroon's Far North Region, Augustine Fonka Awa, said he believed Boko Haram had carried out the attack. Authorities are investigating reports that at least one Cameroon soldier was killed and 10 people were abducted, he said. Cameroon state radio said a Cameroon special forces soldier was killed. It said four others including two soldiers were seriously wounded.

The assailants took away 10 vehicles, two trucks and a container of explosives belonging to the Chinese company, the radio said in a report from the region. In a meeting in Paris on Saturday to improve cooperation in the fight against Boko Haram and other militant groups, French President Francois Hollande said it was becoming a threat to all of West and Central Africa. Boko Haram has staged several attacks in northern Cameroon during its five-year fight to set up an Islamist state. Last month, it attacked a police post killing two people. The rebels kidnapped a French family in February 2013.

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SUMMIT COMBATS BOKO HARAM FUNDS, ARMS, TRAINING
May 17,`14 -- Boko Haram has ample funds, highly sophisticated weaponry and advanced training with some of the world's most experienced terrorists, the French president said Saturday as he and African leaders grappled with how to combat the Islamic extremist group whose reach extends to five countries.

Hours after two more attacks in Boko Haram strongholds - one in Nigeria that left a village torched and 40 people dead and another in Cameroon - the leaders agreed to improve policing of frontiers, share intelligence, and trace the weapons and cash that are the group's lifeblood. At the summit in Paris intended to hammer out a plan to find and free 276 schoolgirls being held hostage by Boko Haram, intelligence officials from the U.S., Europe and Africa shared information while heads of state and top diplomats tackled policy. "This group is armed, with heavy weapons of an unimaginable sophistication and the ability to use them," said French President Francois Hollande.

He said the weapons came from chaotic Libya, and the training took place in Mali before the ouster of its al-Qaida linked Islamist leaders. As for the money, Hollande said its origins were murky. "Boko Haram is acting clearly as an al-Qaida operation," said Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan, who had only reluctantly accepted outside help after years of insisting the group was a local problem. Cameroon, which French officials said until recently also treated Boko Haram as a purely Nigerian issue, has become increasingly involved. The attack late Friday against a Chinese engineering firm's camp left at least 10 people missing and one person dead. China is a major investor in the region, helping build infrastructure, public health projects and sports facilities and importing crude oil, timber and cotton.

The camp was in the same nearly trackless parkland where the girls were first spirited away after an attack on their school in northern Nigeria, highlighting Boko Haram's ability to cross borders unimpeded. An intelligence cell involving French, British and American agents is already operating out of Nigeria, but Boko Haram has seemingly continued to strike unimpeded. Suspected Islamic militants attacked another northeast village before dawn on Saturday, killing about 40 people and burning all the huts as well as three vehicles, according to a member of a vigilante group that went to the village, Dalwa-Masuba, about 80 kilometers (50 miles) southwest of Maiduguri, the Borno state capital. He spoke on condition of anonymity because his group, one of many vigilante organizations set up to fight Boko Haram, does not permit members to talk to reporters.

Hollande also emphasized that Boko Haram had clearly established ties with other terror groups in Africa, making it a concern throughout the continent and beyond. That could provide an opening for U.N. sanctions against the group to freeze its assets and impose travel bans against members. Wendy Sherman, a U.S. diplomat who was at Saturday's talks, said the sanctions could come as soon as next week. "I can't imagine any country which would not support this designation," she said.

Surveillance jets have joined the search and Hollande left open the possibility that French fighter jets could be deployed. Boko Haram has offered to exchange the captive girls for jailed insurgents, while threatening otherwise to sell them into slavery. Officials have said there will be no Western military operation. British officials say Jonathan has ruled out swapping prisoners for the girls. "There are many ways to bring this horrific situation to a close, but when and if we know where they are then the Nigerians will have to decide how to proceed," Sherman said.

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[bianco]

Chinese are taking over Africa, and the world...without firing a shot.
Western govts are simply inviting them in, and asking them to stay.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

#BokoisaMeanPoopyhead

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Gold mining is one possibility.

I know this from watching one of those reality TV shows on gold miners, where the men mining in Africa had had a small group of unpleasant Chinese neighbors on the claim next door.

And here's some better news.

Nigerian villagers fight off attacks by Boko Haram - CNN.com
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Hotoro, Nigeria (CNN) -- Residents of three villages in northeastern Nigeria took security into their own hands this week, repelling attacks by Boko Haram insurgents and killing more than 200 of them, residents and officials said.
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The logistics of this area are daunting. Poor roads, yet cell/satellite phones are common. So any troop movements moving slowly over the ground get reported by the locals, and it's easy to set up ambushes ahead. That's what got Boko Haram here, and it's why the Nigerian Army doesn't want to set out on marches after Boko Haram. If you read the article, the Nigerian troops tried to frag an officer who sent them out.

Time for Michelle to kick the hash tagging into overdrive!

 

[waltky]

Cameroon goin' after Boko Haram...

Cameroon deploys troops to Nigeria border region counter Boko Haram
27 May`14 - Cameroon has deployed some 1,000 troops and armoured vehicles to its border region with Nigeria to counter a rising threat from Boko Haram Islamist militants, the Central African nation's defence ministry spokesman said on Tuesday.

"Their mission will be to carry out reconnaissance and be ready to respond with enough fire power," Lieutenant Colonel Didier Badjeck told Reuters by telephone from Yaounde.

Boko Haram, which outraged international opinion with the abduction of some 200 schoolgirls in northern Nigeria seven weeks ago, has also carried out attacks in northern Cameroon. It is suspected of attacking a Chinese workers camp there this month.

Cameroon deploys troops to Nigeria border region counter Boko Haram

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Cameroon sends troops to Nigeria border to tackle Boko Haram
Tue May 27, 2014 - Cameroon has deployed some 1,000 troops and armoured vehicles to its border region with Nigeria as it steps up its military presence to counter a rising threat from Boko Haram Islamist militants, a defence ministry spokesman said on Tuesday.

Boko Haram, which has outraged international opinion with the abduction of some 200 schoolgirls in northern Nigeria seven weeks ago, has also carried out several attacks and kidnappings in northern Cameroon. Lieutenant Colonel Didier Badjeck said about 1,000 Special Forces of Cameroon's rapid intervention brigade (BIR) left the capital on Monday. Several new generation armoured vehicles were deployed three days earlier, he said. "Their mission will be to carry out reconnaissance and be ready to respond with enough fire power," Badjeck told Reuters by telephone from Yaounde. "They are patrolling in northern region at the moment."

Badjeck said the deployment was part of Cameroon's effort to increase its military presence in the border region. It had already deployed an additional 700 troops under a joint regional effort to fight Boko Haram, announced in March. Nigeria's military said on Monday it knew the whereabouts of the more than 200 abducted schoolgirls, but it ruled out using force to rescue them. Boko Haram has killed thousands during its five-year insurgency in Africa's top oil producer and largest economy.

Abuja accepted help from the United States, Britain, France and China last week and around 80 U.S. troops have started arriving in neighbouring Chad to start a mission to try to free the girls. Surveillance drones are scanning the Sambisa forest, where parents say the girls were last sighted. Nigeria has complained in the past that Cameroon was not doing enough to secure its Far North region which it said is being used by Boko Haram militants to shelter from a Nigerian military offensive and to transport weapons.

Leaders of Nigeria and neighbouring Chad, Cameroon, Niger and Benin met in Paris on May 17 with Western officials to flesh out a plan to coordinate their actions against the militant group, which they said threatens the security of the whole region. Boko Haram is suspected of attacking a Chinese workers camp in northern Cameroon this month. Ten Chinese workers are still missing following the attack.

Cameroon sends troops to Nigeria border to tackle Boko Haram | Reuters

 

[waltky]

Boko Haram Kill Senior Muslim Cleric...

'Boko Haram' gunmen kill senior Muslim cleric in northeastern Borno
May 30, 2014: Boko Haram gunmen on Friday killed a Nigerian Islamic monarch in their northeastern stronghold of Borno in an attack that also targeted two other Muslim royals who escaped unhurt, the state government said.

The Emir of Gwoza, Idrissa Timta, was shot dead in the Tashan Alade area of Borno state while travelling by road to the funeral of another senior cleric, Borno's government said. The Emir of Uba, Ali Ibn Ismaila Mamza, and the Emir of Askira, Abdullahi Ibn Muhammadu Askirama, were also in the convoy but were not harmed. "The gunmen... specifically targeted the vehicle conveying the three emirs and opened fire," said a statement from Borno's state secretary, Baba Ahmed Jidda.

Timta "was killed around 9am today following a bloody attack by some gunmen believed to be members of Boko Haram", the statement added. The Islamist rebels, who have killed thousands in a five-year uprising, have repeatedly targeted Nigeria's Islamic monarchs, whom they accuse of betraying the faith by submitting to the authority of the secular government. A suicide bomber tried to kill Nigeria's third most powerful emir, the Shehu of Borno, Umar Garbai El-Kanemi, as he left Friday prayers in July 2012.

The monarch survived the attack that left five people dead. The convoy of the Emir of Kano, Nigeria's number two Islamic leader, was targeted in an attack last year. The attack follows calls from activists for Nigeria's Islamic royals, including the Borno monarch, to play a greater role in curbing Boko Haram's violence and helping secure the release of the 219 schoolgirls held hostage by the insurgents.

The leader of Nigeria's Muslims, the Sultan of Sokoto, Sa'ad Abubakar III, called for unity in the battle against Boko Haram in a public address at the National Mosque last weekend, urging his followers to support the government. Prominent displays of support for the government from the country's top cleric may have caught the attention of some Boko Haram commanders.

'Boko Haram' gunmen kill senior Muslim cleric in northeastern Borno - The Times of India

 

[waltky]

Nigerian Corruption Hampers Fight Against Boko Haram...

Nigerian Officer Says Corruption Hampers Fight Against Boko Haram
May 30, 2014 — The landscape that stretches away from the serpentine border separating northeastern Nigeria from Cameroon is arid, barren and very difficult to defend.

Which is why Malo, a corporal in a Nigerian mobile police unit, and his fellow officers were glad to see a convoy of reinforcements unexpectedly show up where their patrol was resting earlier this month, near the border village of Gamboru. Then the reinforcements, which included army-issue armored cars and heavy-caliber weaponry, began shouting ”Allahu Akbar!” and opened fire; 13 police officers were killed in the ambush, Malo told VOA in an exclusive interview.

Their bodies rotted in the hot sun for three days. The bogus reinforcements, he said, were Boko Haram militants. ”These insurgents come armed with thousands of bullets, and we carry only 30,” said Malo, a 14-year veteran officer who asked to be identified only by his first name to avoid retribution from his superiors. ”You cannot get 60 bullets until you pay a bribe. How in the world can you fight someone who attacks you with thousands of bullets while you have only 30?” he asked.

Boko Haram notoriety

After years of notoriety, Boko Haram exploded into the global consciousness in April, with the abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls. The kidnapping has struck a chord worldwide, with the Twitter hashtag #BringBackOurGirls going viral and celebrity mentions on film festival red carpets. Boko Haram’s dangers merited mention in U.S. President Barack Obama’s speech at the U.S. Military Academy on Wednesday, and U.S. military personnel are helping in the search. Outrage is also building about the seeming inability of the Nigerian government to either locate the schoolgirls or mount a coherent response to Boko Haram’s audacious attacks. Underscoring that fact, suspected Boko Haram gunmen on Friday killed a traditional Muslim emir and two policemen in northeastern Nigeria.

Sources told VOA's Hausa Service that about 100 gunmen ambushed the convoy of three traditional leaders as it traveled in Gombe state. A local journalist said the Emir of Gwoza, Idris Timta, died of an apparent heart attack when the gunmen attacked. Other sources said the Emir of Uba, Alhaji Ali Ismail Mamza, was missing after the ambush and is believed to have been abducted. The third traditional leader, the Emir of Askira, escaped when his car turned around and sped away at the first signs of attack. In a briefing with VOA editors this week, a top Nigerian official said the government is battling unprecedented terrorism and is doing its best to track down Boko Haram militants. Nigerians, though, are increasingly pointing to rampant corruption and incompetence among police and military units, a point the police officer, Malo, was quick to affirm.

Audacious attack

 

[waltky]

Cameroon not puttin' up with Boko Haram...

Cameroon's Military Kills 60 Boko Haram Members
June 02, 2014 — Cameroon's state radio reports that the military has killed at least 60 Boko Haram members who crossed over from Nigeria seeking refuge.

According to the national radio, the heavily-armed militants, reportedly killed in the village of Dabanga in far northern Cameroon, crossed over from Borno State in Nigeria. They were then ambushed by Cameroonian soldiers the report said. Fonka Awah, the governor of the far north region of Cameroon, said his office had received information that some Boko Haram members might be hiding in Cameroonian villages, and asked for specialized troops to be deployed.

Map of Cameroon

He told VOA that the military had done a good job. "Of course yes, without mincing words, after such a situation you reassemble the forces and map out strategies, you galvanize them and put them back into action and I think that is what we have just done," he said. Ebenezer Akanga, a journalist who works with Cameroon's national broadcaster, told VOA in a telephone interview that if the military had carried out similar attacks in the past, Boko Haram would not be using Cameroon as a safe haven.

A tougher stance

"The opinion many people have is that from the beginning, the government seemed to have been caressing the Boko Harams, the government did not seem to have been taking this fight very seriously. This is what was expected to be done from the very word 'go.' In fact, if the military had this type of reaction it would have deterred the Boko Harams from crossing to Cameroonian territory," said Akanga, adding that security forces from Cameroon and Nigeria should work together to eliminate Boko Haram from the two countries.

Dabanga, Cameroon

"The military has to adopt different strategies because it does not only suffice chasing away the Boko Harams," he said. "The fight needs to be taken to their backyard. Even if officially there may not be agreements authorizing the Cameroonian military to cross over into Nigerian territory, I personally think that this fight can not be won by fighting the Boko Haram only in the Cameroonian territory. The fight should be taken to their own camp out there in Nigeria." Last month, Nigeria's neighbors Cameroon and Chad both declared war on Boko Haram. Cameroon has since deployed 2,000 troops along its border with Nigeria.

Cameroon's Military Kills 60 Boko Haram Members

 

[waltky]

Boko Haram on another one of their rampages...

WITNESSES: BOKO HARAM MILITANTS SLAUGHTER HUNDREDS
Jun 5,`14 -- Boko Haram militants dressed as soldiers slaughtered at least 200 civilians in three villages in northeastern Nigeria and the military failed to intervene even though it was warned that an attack was imminent, witnesses said on Thursday.

A community leader who witnessed the killings on Monday said residents of the Gwoza local government district in Borno state had pleaded for the military to send soldiers to protect the area after they heard that militants were about to attack, but help didn't arrive. The killings occurred in Danjara, Agapalwa, and Antagara. "We all thought they were the soldiers that we earlier reported to that the insurgents might attack us," said the community leader who escaped the massacre and fled to Maiduguri, the Borno state capital. The militants arrived in Toyota Hilux pickup trucks - commonly used by the military - and told the civilians they were soldiers and that they had come "to protect you all," the same tactic used by the group when they kidnapped more than 300 girls from a school in the town of Chibok on April 15.

After people gathered in the center on the orders of the militants, "they began to shout `Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar,' then they began to fire at the people continuously for a very long time until all who had gathered were all dead," said the witness, who didn't want to be named out of fear for his safety. Allahu akbar means God is great. The slaughter was confirmed by both Mohammed Ali Ndume, a senator representing Borno whose hometown is Gwoza, and by a top security official in Maiduguri who insisted on anonymity because he isn't allowed to speak to the media. It took a few days for survivors to get word of the massacres to Maiduguri because travel on the roads is extremely dangerous and phone connections are poor or nonexistent.

Ndume said the military has assured the Borno state governor that they will send soldiers to the area immediately. "It is sad that we have to wait till now that people are being killed for government to take action," said Ndume. "Soldiers of the Nigerian army have been overstretched in both human and material capacity." Calls made to Defense Headquarters spokesman Chris Olukolade's mobile phone didn't connect. An email sent to him seeking comment wasn't answered. Calls made to presidential spokesman Reuben Abati also didn't connect, and he didn't immediately respond to an email seeking comment. The community leader said some of the others who escaped are trapped in the mountainous area. "They still see the gunmen going about attacking villages and hamlets by setting them on fire," he said.

He said managed to survive because "I was going round to inform people that the soldiers had come and they wanted to address us." As people were fleeing, other gunmen lurked outside the villages on motorcycles and mowed them down, he said. In another incident, militants attacked Alagarno, a village near Chibok where the girls were kidnapped, and destroyed it, according to Pogu Bitrus, a Chibok community. People heard gunshots as the fighters were approaching and were able to flee, he said. Nigeria's military has insisted that the big influx of troops and a year-old state of emergency in Borno and two other states has the insurgents on the run. But soldiers have told The Associated Press they are outgunned and outnumbered by the insurgents, don't have bullet-proof vests, are not properly paid and have to forage for food.

The villages attacked on Monday are in the Gwoza local government, a regional political center whose emir was killed in a Boko Haram ambush on his convoy last week. Emirs are religious and traditional rulers who have been targeted for speaking out against Boko Haram's extremism. Borno Gov. Kashim Shettima traveled on Saturday to Gwoza to pay his respects to the fallen emir and was quoted as saying it was a terrifying ride. A local journalist who was in the convoy that was escorted by 150 soldiers counted at least 16 towns and villages that were deserted along the 135 kilometer (85 mile) route, according to the local media report. Boko Haram, which wants to establish Islamic state in Nigeria, has been taking over villages in the northeast, killing and terrorizing civilians and political leaders as they make a comeback from a year-long military offensive. Thousands of people have been killed in the 5-year-old insurgency, more than 2,000 so far just this year, and an estimated 750,000 Nigerians have been driven from their homes.

News from The Associated Press

 

[CrusaderFrank]

#TurnYourselfInBokoBeforeMichelleTweetsAgain

 

[bianco]

Boko Haram on another one of their rampages...

WITNESSES: BOKO HARAM MILITANTS SLAUGHTER HUNDREDS
Jun 5,`14 -- Boko Haram militants dressed as soldiers slaughtered at least 200 civilians in three villages in northeastern Nigeria and the military failed to intervene even though it was warned that an attack was imminent, witnesses said on Thursday.

A community leader who witnessed the killings on Monday said residents of the Gwoza local government district in Borno state had pleaded for the military to send soldiers to protect the area after they heard that militants were about to attack, but help didn't arrive. The killings occurred in Danjara, Agapalwa, and Antagara. "We all thought they were the soldiers that we earlier reported to that the insurgents might attack us," said the community leader who escaped the massacre and fled to Maiduguri, the Borno state capital. The militants arrived in Toyota Hilux pickup trucks - commonly used by the military - and told the civilians they were soldiers and that they had come "to protect you all," the same tactic used by the group when they kidnapped more than 300 girls from a school in the town of Chibok on April 15.

After people gathered in the center on the orders of the militants, "they began to shout `Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar,' then they began to fire at the people continuously for a very long time until all who had gathered were all dead," said the witness, who didn't want to be named out of fear for his safety. Allahu akbar means God is great. The slaughter was confirmed by both Mohammed Ali Ndume, a senator representing Borno whose hometown is Gwoza, and by a top security official in Maiduguri who insisted on anonymity because he isn't allowed to speak to the media. It took a few days for survivors to get word of the massacres to Maiduguri because travel on the roads is extremely dangerous and phone connections are poor or nonexistent.

Ndume said the military has assured the Borno state governor that they will send soldiers to the area immediately. "It is sad that we have to wait till now that people are being killed for government to take action," said Ndume. "Soldiers of the Nigerian army have been overstretched in both human and material capacity." Calls made to Defense Headquarters spokesman Chris Olukolade's mobile phone didn't connect. An email sent to him seeking comment wasn't answered. Calls made to presidential spokesman Reuben Abati also didn't connect, and he didn't immediately respond to an email seeking comment. The community leader said some of the others who escaped are trapped in the mountainous area. "They still see the gunmen going about attacking villages and hamlets by setting them on fire," he said.

He said managed to survive because "I was going round to inform people that the soldiers had come and they wanted to address us." As people were fleeing, other gunmen lurked outside the villages on motorcycles and mowed them down, he said. In another incident, militants attacked Alagarno, a village near Chibok where the girls were kidnapped, and destroyed it, according to Pogu Bitrus, a Chibok community. People heard gunshots as the fighters were approaching and were able to flee, he said. Nigeria's military has insisted that the big influx of troops and a year-old state of emergency in Borno and two other states has the insurgents on the run. But soldiers have told The Associated Press they are outgunned and outnumbered by the insurgents, don't have bullet-proof vests, are not properly paid and have to forage for food.

The villages attacked on Monday are in the Gwoza local government, a regional political center whose emir was killed in a Boko Haram ambush on his convoy last week. Emirs are religious and traditional rulers who have been targeted for speaking out against Boko Haram's extremism. Borno Gov. Kashim Shettima traveled on Saturday to Gwoza to pay his respects to the fallen emir and was quoted as saying it was a terrifying ride. A local journalist who was in the convoy that was escorted by 150 soldiers counted at least 16 towns and villages that were deserted along the 135 kilometer (85 mile) route, according to the local media report. Boko Haram, which wants to establish Islamic state in Nigeria, has been taking over villages in the northeast, killing and terrorizing civilians and political leaders as they make a comeback from a year-long military offensive. Thousands of people have been killed in the 5-year-old insurgency, more than 2,000 so far just this year, and an estimated 750,000 Nigerians have been driven from their homes.

News from The Associated Press

The no 1 radio host in biancocity asked today...para; "More horrific murders of innocent people in Nigeria... Where is the international Muslim community?!!! .....and what are they doing about it?

Answer; deathly silent it seems.

 

[waltky]

bianco wrote: The no 1 radio host in biancocity asked today...para; "More horrific murders of innocent people in Nigeria... Where is the international Muslim community?!!! .....and what are they doing about it?

That's the problem - too many Mooslims involved as it is.

 

[billdad19912114]

I tell the United States cooperate with them and give the jailed insurgent they help us with holy scripture. They could be trying to give peace to our political world they hinder our federal projects, I want Gaza to be. Federal project out there in Gaza

 

[LAfrique]

Last Updated: Saturday, May 17, 2014

Beijing: A Chinese national was killed and 10 others were feared kidnapped after an overnight attack in northern Cameroon believed to have been carried out by Boko Haram militants from Nigeria, a police said on Saturday

Okay, so I got this link from Jihad Watch. What caught my attention is the lead that makes one wonder what Chinese were doing there – and, more important – does this mean China might become involved with or send military personnel to the area?

Read more @ Boko Haram kill one Chinese, 10 missing in Cameroon: Police

Lots of questions surrounding activities of Boko Haram: I think Boko Haram is puppet of political group (or groups) in Nigeria:

When 200+ girls were reported kidnapped several weeks ago, I immediately wondered at the ease and quiet operation of the alleged kidnapping of school girls. And as things unfolded, it became very obvious to me that those school girls were being used to make political statement (though we know not to whom) -

Anyway, weeks later, news surfaced about one of the kidnapped school girls seen texting while in gathering with her peers - The Rebel - Home of the Goyim Resistance - Nigerian Kidnapped Schoolgirl Caught Texting on Cell Phone


Meanwhile, Nigeria, the most populous nation in Africa, is also known as most restless nation in Africa. Civil unrest in Nigeria is in fact a norm. Cameroon and other nation bordering Nigeria have so many Nigerian immigrants you would be left dumb-founded. When I was a child in Cameroon, there were so many Nigerians in Cameroon that we used to think most of Nigeria was in Cameroon.