Jihad is still a thing: 53 Burkina security forces killed in suspected jihadist attack

BURKINA FASO -- The 22nd anniversary of 911 went by on Monday and even our alleged President didn't seem interested in coming to New York as the tradition had warranted. Instead, Joe Biden went to Alaska and told his audience that he had gone to Ground Zero the day after the attack back in 2001. He lied.

But it also looks like the American public has lost interest in what has been going on in the whacky world of Islamic jihad. Journalists don't seem interested, so the general public remains clueless.

The Religion of Peace shared that “53 members of Burkina security forces killed in suspected jihadist attack,” Africa News, September 5, 2023. 

The attack was launched on Monday in northern Burkina Faso in which 17 soldiers and 36 civilian volunteers for the army were slaughtered trying to repel an "attack" the army general staff said in a written statement.

The unit had been deployed in the town of Koumbri in Yatenga province to help the resettlement of residents forced out of the area by Islamic jihadists more than two years ago, the report said.

There were also 30 injuries among the security forces while several attackers had been "neutralized" in a counter-operation and their combat equipment destroyed as operations continue in the area.

There had been two military coups in Burkina Faso last year due to failures to counter jihadist insurgency which triggered hostility among the military.

Since 2015, over 16,000 civilians, troops and police have died in jihadist attacks in Burkina Faso, according to a count by an NGO monitor called the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED), and more than 5,000 have been killed so far this year.

We need to pay attention and get our eyes on the ball, not on our phones.

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