More Than 60 Women, Girls Escape Islamist Abductors In Nigeria

[Purveyor]

Source: Agence France-Presse

More than 60 women and girls abducted last month by suspected Boko Haram militants northeast Nigeria have escaped their captors, sources said Sunday.

Local vigilante Abbas Gava said he had "received an alert from my colleagues ... that about 63 of the abducted women and girls had made it back home". A high-level security source in Borno state capital Maiduguri, who requested anonymity, confirmed the escape.

Read more: http://www.france24.com/en/20140707-more-60-women-girls-escape-islamist-abductors-nigeria/

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Since Agence France-Presse has been deemed as a not-reputable news source by the LBN hosts, please reference this thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025203796

just in case this one is 'locked'...

[JI7]

1. i hope so, maybe they can provide info on where others are

but it may not make a difference in terms of help they get because i think they already know where the girls are. it's more a matter of getting them out .

[Spouting Horn]

13. Everyone knows

where the other girls are, no doubt. The issue is can they grab them safely.

[uppityperson]

2. If you are concerned about a thread being locked for a source, why not simply put the other one 1st?

And when have LBN Hosts deemed that not-reputable news source? Link to that please as I do not recall that.

[Purveyor]

3. Because I shouldn't have to. This report is valid and accurate as it stands regardless

of the source.

As for the AFP article that was deemed 'unreliable', here is the link to the thread: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014840208 and the thread in the hosts forum which you can access here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/124393654

[uppityperson]

4. Alerted for source, locked as hosts agreed it was background/commentary vs meeting LBN SOP

Yes, locking host said source, but looking at the thread in F&GH group, not "Important news of national interest only" but background/commentary. I agree that the locking message should have been clearer, but to now say that was the only or primary reason is wrong. Though you do, of course, get to snark at LBN hosts.

[reorg]

6. why are you engaging in meta discussions

I thought this is not okay around here.

And what do you mean by "put the other one first"?

The poster only referenced AFP, and it is indeed more than ridiculous to consider this news agency "not reliable".

BTW, I almost posted this news item a minute before Purveyor ... but I had read it here:

Over 60 kidnapped girls escape Boko Haram in Nigeria
More than 60 girls abducted last month by Boko Haram in Nigeria have escaped their captors, sources told AFP. “I received an alert from my colleagues ... that about 63 of the abducted women and girls had made it back home," local vigilante Abbas Gava told the agency. An anonymous official in Borno state capital Maiduguri also confirmed the escape to the agency. Suspected Boko Haram militants abducted more than 60 women and girls in late June in the latest kidnappings in northeast Nigeria and over two months since more than 200 schoolgirls were seized.

http://rt.com/news/line/2014-07-06/#65616

Totally unreliabe, I am told! And it would have been locked within minutes, as you know very well. Something is wrong in the state of LBN, I'm telling ya.

[uppityperson]

9. Simply trying to correct an inaccuracy

"Agence France-Presse has been deemed as a not-reputable news source by the LBN hosts" is wrong. The majority of LBN hosts agreed the story did not fit LBN SOP, not a source issue. The host who did lock did write that, but that was only one of all the lbn hosts who weighed in.

Unless there are other links, showing that "Agence France-Presse has been deemed as a not-reputable news source by the LBN hosts", simply trying to correct that inaccuracy.

Maybe you could try volunteering as a LBN Host sometime and see the discussions for yourself.

[rickyhall]

5. If true, good for them, but I'm wondering HOW?

Doesn't seem link 60 sheltered women & girls could pull off a Great Escape.

[AllyCat]

8. I would think a bunch of sheltered women and girls would desire to go back to their homes

Would not put it past them at this point

[pinboy3niner]

12. A Nigerian news website reported these details, attributing to a top security official:

A top security officer in Maiduguri, who asked not to be named, confirmed the escape saying, "there is no doubt about your report; the women and girls were able to escape,” said the source. “I guess it was during the time the gunmen were attacking Damboa; left behind just some few men to watch over the women, but the women took advantage of an opportunity when the guys were dozing off, and bolted away but quietly.

http://www.nigerianbulletin.com/threads/breaking-63-abducted-women-escape-from-boko-harams-den.83126/

[reorg]

7. I found a totally reliable source!

More Than 60 Nigerian Girls And Women Escape Kidnappers: REPORT
The Huffington Post | By Braden Goyette
Posted: 07/06/2014 6:25 pm EDT Updated: 51 minutes ago Print Article ABUBAKAR SHEKAU

More than 60 girls and women kidnapped by Nigeria's Boko Haram have escaped their captors, a security source told Agence France Presse on Sunday.

The women who escaped had been abducted from Kummabza village in late June. Boko Haram is still holding more than 200 schoolgirls abducted about two months ago from a school in Chibok.

Abbas Gava, a local vigilante who has been working with Nigerian security officials, told AFP that the women made a break for it late Friday when the militants left to stage an attack. An anonymous high-level security source confirmed the escape to AFP.

Nigerian news website Premium Times earlier reported the escape, also citing an anonymous top security officer, though that report seems to no longer be accessible on its website.

Note that they do not only quote AFP's two sources, perhaps they are also sceptical if you can trust the French ... they found the news on a Nigerian website, even though it may be no longer accessible right now ...

[elleng]

10. Agence France Presse 'not reputable?'

?????????