{"id":36202,"date":"2015-02-19T20:29:22","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T19:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=36202"},"modified":"2015-02-19T20:34:28","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T19:34:28","slug":"nigerian-army-warplanes-bombard-sambisa-forest-terrorists-run-weapons-recovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/nigerian-army-warplanes-bombard-sambisa-forest-terrorists-run-weapons-recovered\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Army Warplanes Bombard Sambisa Forest, Terrorists On The Run, Weapons Recovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nigerian warplanes bombarded training camps and caches of weapons and<br \/>\nvehicles belonging to the Islamist group Boko Haram in the northeasterly<br \/>\nSamibisa forest on Thursday, the military said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The death of a large number of terrorists has been recorded while many<br \/>\nothers are also scampering all over the forest and out of the struck<br \/>\nbases,&#8221; defence spokesman Major-General Chris Olukolade said.<\/p>\n<p>After a year in which Boko Haram seemed to be gaining ground, seizing<br \/>\nswathes of territory, killing thousands of people and kidnapping hundreds<br \/>\nof mostly women and children, the tide has appeared to turn against them<br \/>\nin the past month, as neighbouring countries plagued by cross-border<br \/>\nattacks have weighed in.<\/p>\n<p>Nigerian forces have killed more than 300 Boko Haram fighters during an<br \/>\noperation to recapture 11 towns and villages since the start of the week,<br \/>\nthe military said on Wednesday, though it was not possible to<br \/>\nindependently verify this and the military has in the past been accused of<br \/>\nexaggerating enemy casualties while understating its own.<\/p>\n<p>Samibisa gained notoriety last year when more than 200 girls kidnapped by<br \/>\nBoko Haram from a secondary school in nearby Chibok were taken there. Some<br \/>\nof them escaped Samibisa shortly afterwards but most have remained in<br \/>\ncaptivity ever since.<\/p>\n<p>Aerial surveillance of the forest has not revealed their whereabouts.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/weapon.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-36203\" src=\"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/weapon.jpg\" alt=\"weapon\" width=\"750\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/weapon.jpg 750w, https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/weapon-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/weapon-600x320.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Nigerian warplanes bombarded training camps and caches of weapons and vehicles belonging to the Islamist group Boko Haram in the northeasterly Samibisa forest on Thursday, the military said. &#8220;The&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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