Chad president tells Boko Haram leader to surrender or face death

Reuters ^ | March 4, 2015 | Madjiasra Nako

[george76]

President Idriss Deby of Chad said on Wednesday he knew the whereabouts of Abubakar Shekau, the leader of the Nigerian militant group Boko Haram, and called on him to surrender or risk being killed.

Chad's army has waged a series of battles against Boko Haram as part of a cross-border military campaign and has re-taken territory the militant group held in northeastern Nigeria.

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The Chadian army is considered one of the best in the region, backed by a strong air force. It first deployed to help Cameroon fend off Boko Haram and is now pressing southwest into Nigerian territory after capturing the border town of Gambaru last month.

Boko Haram, a Sunni militant group, has killed thousands of people in Nigeria during a six-year insurgency to carve out an Islamic caliphate. It has also staged a series of recent cross- border attacks into Chad, Cameroon and Niger.

[arthurus]

I am thinking of the pulling of the troops away from the Jewish sites because they were getting threatened.

[BeadCounter]

Looks like they are still using the Toyotas: Picture: http://cdn.mg.co.za/crop/content/images/2015/02/21/f66ff0c4ffab087de83d8dd719a338a94bc69d4a_landscape.jpg/633x356/ Story: http://mgafrica.com/article/2015-02-25-chadian-army-kills-hundreds-of-militants-in-nigeria-as-boko-haram-murders-rise-100-in-2014