Teenager seized for Boko Haram attack tells how she tore off suicide vest and fled

The Guardian ^ | 12 Feb 2016 | ap

[Cronos]

Strapped with a suicide bomb vest and sent by the extremist Boko Haram group to kill as many people as possible, the teenage girl tore off the explosives and fled as soon as she was out of sight of her handlers.

Her two companions, however, completed their grisly mission and walked into a crowd of hundreds at Dikwa refugee camp in north-east Nigeria and blew themselves up, killing 58 people.

Modu Awami, a self-defence fighter who helped question the girl, said: “She said she was scared because she knew she would kill people. But she was also frightened of going against the instructions of the men who brought her to the camp.”

She was among thousands held captive for months by the extremists, according to Algoni Lawan, a spokesman for the Ngala local government area that has many residents at the camp and who is privy to information about her interrogation by security forces.

...Boko Haram’s six-year Islamist insurgency has killed 20,000 people, made 2.5 million homeless and spread across Nigeria’s borders

...Even two days later, it is unclear how many people died at Dikwa because there were corpses and body parts everywhere, including in the cooking pots, Awami said. “Women, children, men and aged persons all died,” he said. “I cannot say the exact number as some cannot be counted because the bodies were all mangled.”

[Cronos]

Islam kills more people. This is a brave girl to run away

[American in Israel]

Lucky too, most handellers carry remote cell phone detonaters as jihadi often get cold feet.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

Hooray for this brave young woman. I hold no blame for the other two women, but am thankful for this one. May she have a beautiful life from here on out. God bless her.

Those many deaths are on the heads of the EVIL BOKO HARAM MONSTERS and not on those abused, victimized women.

[lee martell]

Horrible. I’ve never spent one day of my life in such terror. This girl spends all her life there, and decides to survive!

[AbolishCSEU]

Im glad to see that #bringbackourgirls worked so well /s

[immadashell]

Islam kills more people. This is a brave girl to run away

In the human massacre business it is a toss-up as to who is the most successful, Islamists or socialists.

[Caipirabob]

Wow, very few Americans can relate to the nightmare of existence outside of America and it's culture, which is for the most part shielded from the daily atrocities inflicted on parts of what is still very much a medieval world and mentality.

If there were less people ignorant of the reality that exists beyond our borders, we'd have far less morons ready and willing to embrace the same politics that has inflicted such misery on others.