The ISIS-aligned Boko Haram terrorist organization has committed numerous terrorist attacks in Maiduguri and Madagali, resulting in mass casualties, days after the Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari claimed that “technically, we have won the war” against Boko Haram (which means “Western Education is sin”). The ISIS-aligned group, which joined the ISIS terrorist organization in March 2015, has begun calling itself Wilāyat Gharb Ifrīqīyyah, or the Islamic State’s West Africa Province (ISWAP).
ISWAP / Boko Haram terrorists were responsible for terrorist bombings in Maiduguri and Madagali, reportedly killing people, using rocket-propelled grenades and multiple suicide bombers. The number of victims of the terrorist attacks vary by news media. ABC reported a total of 80 victims, CNN reported a total of 52 victims, and the Nigerian Daily Post reported a total 51 victims.
Overnight on December 27-28, 2015, the Nigerian National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) area coordinator Muhammed Kanar reportedly told ABC that in “Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state, at least 30 were killed and more than 90 wounded in overnight blasts and shootouts, and another 20 died in a bombing outside a mosque at dawn Monday.” Photographs on Twitter from Maiduguri show the ISWAP / Boko Haram attack of Muslims near an Islamic mosque.
Nigeria – reports of ISIS/ISWAP – Boko Haram terrorist attack outside Maiduguri mosque (Source: Twitter)
On the morning of December 28, 2015, a double suicide bombing terrorist attack killed an additional 30 people at a market near bus station at 9 AM local time in Madagali, which is 95 miles southeast of Maiduguri.
Victims of ISWAP / Boko Haram Terrorist Attacks (Source: Twitter)
On December 28, 2015, the Nigerian Daily Post reported that “members of the sect have reportedly detonated explosion in three different areas of the metropolis, killing at least 31 people at Bullumkuttu, Bakassi area and Damboa road behind CBN quarter. Residents of the area told our correspondent that the explosion that rocked the state capital this morning killed a resident of Bakassi ward, Bulama Modu Gana along with three others. Another IED that exploded at Bullumkuttu also killed 20 people, while the one which occurred at Damboa road behind CBN quarters killed another 6 people with several others reportedly injured.”
Multiple news media reported that the total number of terrorist attacks totaled nine. ABC reported that the “military said there had been multiple attacks at four southwestern entry points to Maiduguri. In another blast, two girls blew themselves up in the Buraburin neighborhood, killing several people, according to civil servant Yunusa Abdullahi.”
The Voice of America also reported “[t]wo female suicide bombers blew themselves up on Monday in the Far North region of Cameroon while trying to carry out attacks for Islamist militant group Boko Haram, local officials said, but there were no other deaths. ‘The suicide bombing took place at the entrance of Bodo. Two women bombers wanted to get to the market place but they were stopped by vigilantes,’ said Abgassi Adoum, mayor of Makary district of which Bodo is a part. He said one member of the watch committee was lightly wounded.”
On December 24, 2015, the BBC reported an interview with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, who was elected to provide new solutions to ongoing sectarian disputes, and the extremist terrorism of ISWAP/Boko Haram which had been plagued Nigeria. BBC reported that Muhammadu Buhari stated “Technically, we have won the war” with ISWAP/Boko Haram.
On December 24, 2015, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari told BBC that Nigeria had “technically won the war” with ISIS/ISWAP – Boko Haram (Source: BBC)
Since declaring its terrorist war in 2009, ISWAP/Boko Haram’s terrorism has killed 20,000 and displaced 2.3 million from their homes. Such terrorist crimes against humanity in killing 20,000 of our fellow human beings should make such terrorist atrocities one of the primary human rights and security alerts of the world. But there are often an afterthought, especially by so-called “mainstream” Western media outlets.
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