Yesterday Nigeria's Ministry of Defense announced that Nigerian soldiers had killed Momodu Bama, second-in-command of the Islamist terror group that has attacked schools, markets, and both Christian and Muslim worshippers, and has killed thousands in the past two years (including 44 in an attack on a mosque on Sunday).
This development is separate from yesterday's announcement that two Boko Haram leaders were killed in a four-hour gun battle with Nigerian forces in northeast Adamawa State. (The two had been captured a week earlier, and reportedly died when showing army officers their hideout, when the firefight erupted. Not surprisingly, this has given rise to suspicions of an extra-judicial killing).
As Reuters reports, "The military has announced the killing of senior members of the sect before, notably a spokesman called Abu Qaqa, only for a person using the same name to say he had not been killed," hence the question mark in this post's title.
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