Nigerian army says destroys Boko Haram headquarters

[Bosonic]

Source: Reuters

The Nigerian army said on Friday it destroyed the headquarters of Boko Haram after capturing the northeastern town of Gwoza from the Islamist insurgent group.

Boko Haram seized Gwoza in August last year, declaring that they were ruling the town by Islamic law. The insurgents were believed to have held some 200 schoolgirls kidnapped from Chibok almost a year ago in the town.

The announcement of the capture of Gwoza comes a day ahead of Nigeria's presidential election in which President Goodluck Jonathan will face former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari.

Several members of Boko Haram were killed and a mop-up operation was taking place in Gwoza, the army said on its official twitter account, adding that details would follow.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/27/us-nigeria-violence-gwoza-idUSKBN0MN18520150327

[bigworld]

1. Amazing how Jonathan has the will to fight the day before an election

[Fred Sanders]

3. At least he took action......and did not lie the day before an election or go full bigot.

[freshwest]

2. They were in three nations crossing back and forth. Will have to keep on fighting, no doubt.

But if this eliminated a safe area for them to launch attacks from, this may help with that.

[Renew Deal]

4. How is it they Jonathan can't defend the country 364 days out of the year

But manages to grab a HQ the day before.

I wish the best for the Nigerians and hopefully that includes new leadership.

[riderinthestorm]

6. Yup. Anyone who believes Goodluck isn't complicit in BH's crimes isn't paying attention

The inaction alone is despicable, along with the purposeful apathy to the ongoing atrocities.

[Sunlei]

5. so did they recover any of the 200 girls in that town? most will have an infant by now.

or did they just flatten the town and kill every woman and child too?

[cosmicone]

7. Fake news with ulterior motive n/t

[Dreamer Tatum]

8. "You guys beat it for a few days. We need to blow up the hideout." nt