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Robert Postings

Aug 14, 2019 • 3 tweets • 2 min read

The ISWAP photos released for Eid al-Adha show the rather 'professional' appearance of militants. Similar uniforms are common and even matching vehicles thanks to technical/gun trucks captured from Nigeria.

This relative uniformness is the same during attacks, as seen in these pictures from recent ISWAP photosets from assaults on a Nigerian position in Borno show.

In the most recent ISWAP photoset, one of the pieces of captured equipment was a howitzer. Yesterday another "artillery gun" was captured from Gubio in Borno. premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines…

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