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Jonathan Is Working! Nigeria Sends In War Plane Against Boko Haram Caliphate by tochukwuifeduba: 6:19pm On Sep 05, 2014 |
Nigeria sends in warplanes against Boko Haram in northeast "ABUJA - Nigerian warplanes are carrying out air strikes against Boko Haram militant bases in northeast Borno state, a senior official said on Friday, in a government counter-attack against the group's apparent drive to create an Islamist enclave. The official, who asked not to be named, told Reuters Nigeria's military was battling Boko Haram fighters at Bama, 70 km (45 miles) southeast of the Borno state capital Maiduguri. Air strikes have been carried out "on all the Boko Haram bases", the official said, adding this reflected President Goodluck Jonathan's order for a "fully-fledged war" against the group which has waged a bloody insurgency since 2009. Military spokesmen have denied reports Bama was overrun by heavily armed militants earlier this week after they attacked it with captured military vehicles and pick-up trucks mounted with machine guns, all part of a growing Boko Haram arsenal. "Bama today is the center of the military battle with the terrorists ... Boko Haram is being repelled by the Nigerian troops as we are talking now," the government official said, without giving details of the operations or casualties. Nigeria's air force and defense headquarters did not respond to requests for comment and it was not immediately possible to obtain independent confirmation of the fighting. The battle over Bama, and Boko Haram's storming of towns and villages to the north, east and south of Maiduguri in recent weeks, has raised fears of an attack on the Borno state capital, prompting hundreds of civilians to flee. "Even today, we can see so many people leaving ... the buses are going out plenty now," Musa Sumail, a human rights activist in Maiduguri who reports on the violence in the northeast, told Reuters. He said he had seen at least one or two Nigerian government fighter jets in the skies above Maiduguri. Boko Haram, whose leader Abubakar Shekau last month declared a "Muslim territory" in the northeast after capturing the town of Gwoza on the Cameroon border, is believed to be trying to mimic the example of Islamic State (IS) in Syria and Iraq which announced the creation of a separate caliphate there. Jonathan's government, which faces an election in February, has come under sharpening public criticism for its apparent inability to check Boko Haram's five-year insurgency, which has ravaged the poor northeast corner of Africa's biggest economy. http://www.todayonline.com/world/nigeria-sends-warplanes-against-boko-haram-northeast |
Re: Jonathan Is Working! Nigeria Sends In War Plane Against Boko Haram Caliphate by Idrismusty97(m): 6:23pm On Sep 05, 2014 |
No Video? No pics? Then they should keep quiet until it's all over ![]() |
Re: Jonathan Is Working! Nigeria Sends In War Plane Against Boko Haram Caliphate by seankafor(m): 7:15pm On Sep 05, 2014 |
pix will help in morale boosting |
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