Monday, December 2, 2013

Boko Haram Attacks Nigerian Air Force base

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December 2, 2013 Boko Haram Attacks Nigerian Air Force base A force of 300 fighters attacked a Nigerian Air Force base as part of an attack on the city of Maiduguri. They were repelled by government forces but destroyed some parked aircraft and killed some security forces. It resembled attacks on Camp Bastion in Afghanistan which destroyed several Harrier jets, and a Pakistan naval air station which killed 10 troops and destroyed 2 and damaged on P-3 patrol planes.


Long War Journal:  Boko Haram overruns Nigerian Air Force base
Posted: 02 Dec 2013 11:46 AM PST
Boko Haram, a Nigerian terrorist group with ties to al Qaeda, launched a major attack on a Nigerian Air Force base in the insurgency-wracked city of Maiduguri. A number of security personnel were killed and several aircraft were destroyed during the nighttime attack that is said to have been executed by hundreds of Boko Haram fighters... attack in Maiduguri is reminiscent of others by al Qaeda's allies on air forces bases in other theaters of the war. Two of the more prominent attacks over the past several years include the Afghan Taliban's assault on Camp Bastion in Helmand in September 2012 (two US Marines were killed, and six Harriers were destroyed and two more were damaged); and the Pakistani Taliban's attack on Pakistani Naval Station Mehran in Karachi (10 Pakistani troops were killed, and two US-made P-3C Orion maritime surveillance planes were destroyed and another was damaged).

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