Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Boko Haram kidnap Cameroon vice PM's wife

in the times article on BH today they asserted that 250 men attacked
Ali's home in cameroon.
that is a very large number of attackers.
how large is BH anyway?
ken

On 7/28/14 3:30 PM, Emeagwali, Gloria (History) wrote:
> OA,
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> Is this claim credible enough for you or are the Cameroonians just making it up?
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> Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Boko Haram kidnap Cameroon vice PM's wife
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> Boko Haram kidnap Cameroon vice PM's wife - BBC
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> 2014-07-27 15:34
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> Yaounde, July 27 :
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> Islamic Boko Haram militants have abducted the wife of Cameroon's Vice Prime Minister Amadou Ali in an attack Sunday, an official said.
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> The Islamic group attacked the vice prime minister's home and kidnapped his wife in the northern town of Kolofata, lying along the Nigerian border, Xinhua reported citing Issa Tchiroma Bakary, Cameroon's minister of information, as saying.
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> The attack claimed the lives of 10 people, military sources said.
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> In another incident, Seini Boukar, a religious leader locally known as 'Lamido', was kidnapped by the militants, the minister said.
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> Nigeria, Cameroon's neighbouring country in western Africa, has been facing severe terrorist attacks from the Islamic fundamentalist group Boko Haram with the mid-April abduction of 200 schoolgirls in Chibok, northern Nigeria, and a late June bomb blast in Abuja which killed 21 people.
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> Boko Haram is based in northeast Nigeria, north Cameroon and Niger. It seeks to establish an Islamic state ruled by sharia. The group has been declared a terrorist organisation by the US and sanctioned by the UN Security Council.
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> BBC
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