LAGOS,
Nigeria (AP) -- Nigeria says it cannot meet President Muhammadu
Buhari's December deadline to crush Boko Haram's Islamic uprising in the
northeast.
Air Commodore Yusuf Anas of the Center for Crisis Communication said on Thursday the deadline was "not tenable."
He warns Nigerians to not view December as a "sacrosanct date when all suicide bombings will end."
Forces
from Nigeria and neighboring Chad earlier this year drove the
extremists out of areas they had proclaimed an Islamic caliphate.
Recently, the Nigerian Air Force and ground troops have reported
destroying numerous Boko Haram camps and freeing more than 1,000 kidnap
victims.
In June, Buhari ordered the military
to crush the insurgency by December, but the extremists have pushed back
with village raids and urban suicide bombings that have killed more
than 1,500 people.
SOURCES AP News
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