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3 children dead in Nigeria bomb blast
Kano — A bomb exploded near a church in northern Nigeria Thursday and killed three children, police said, with Islamic militants blamed for a rash of attacks in the area.
“A bomb went off in a house adjoining Eyn church in the town of Damboa, killing three children playing nearby,” Borno state police commissioner Mohammed Jinjiri Abubabakar told AFP.
That attack was blamed on radical Islamists in the Boko Haram group that is active in northern Nigeria.
Boko Haram has been blamed for several bombing in the north, targeting police stations and churches. It has also been accused of shooting dozens of people including policemen, community and religious leaders.
Also known as the Nigerian Taliban, Boko Haram has pushed for the creation of an Islamic state. It launched an uprising in 2009 which was put down by a brutal military assault that left hundreds dead.
At least 14 people, including a church pastor, were killed and 17 others seriously injured in attacks in Maiduguri early this month.
http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/3-children-dead-in-Nigeria-bomb-blast-20110616
Wonder how many bibles get desecrated in these attacks? Yet Christians don't riot for weeks on end and behead a bunch of UN workers. Interesting.
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Nigerian Taliban Says They’ve Been Training With al-Shabaab In Somalia And Will Continue To Wage Jihad
(AFP) — A Nigerian Islamist sect that staged a series of deadly attacks mainly in the country’s north on Wednesday threatened “fiercer” attacks and said it would not enter into talks with the government.
The Boko Haram group, which had two days ago laid down conditions for any talks with government, also disclosed for the first time that it had links with Islamists in Somalia.
“Dialogue with President (Goodluck) Jonathan has collapsed,” because of the statements made by the inspector general of police and governor of northern Borno state, the group said.
It said it was angered by the police chief Hafiz Ringim’s declaration that “the days of Boko Haram are numbered”.
“Very soon, we will wage jihad. . . We want to make it known that our jihadists have arrived in Nigeria from Somalia where they received real training on warfare from our brethren who made that country ungovernable. . .,” said the group in a handwritten statement.
“This time round, our attacks will be fiercer and wider than they have been,” it said, adding it will target all northern states and the country’s capital Abuja.
The statement in Hausa, a widely spoken language in the north, was anonymously delivered to journalists in the northeastern city of Maiduguri, capital of Borno state, where the attacks are concentrated.
The sect admitted links with a foreign Islamist group connected to Al-Qaeda, although security experts had already speculated that it had established ties with Islamists in north Africa.
The statement purportedly emanated from "Jama'atu Ahlis-sunnah lidda'ati wal Jihad", another name the sect calls itself.
Boko Haram had on Monday issued a statement setting conditions for ceasefire and dialogue with the government, which included the strict application of sharia law in the 12 predominately Muslim states in the north.
Also known as the Nigerian Talibans, the group launched an uprising in 2009 which was put down by a brutal military assault that left hundreds dead.
The sect, which has pushed for the creation of an Islamic state, has been blamed for shootings of police and community leaders, bomb blasts and raids on churches, police stations and a prison.
http://beta.news.yahoo.com/nigerian-islamists-vow-fiercer-attacks-191115412.html
AMERICA'S FAULT! ::)
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Nigeria: Islamists Open Fire On Beer Drinkers, Four Killed
KANO, Nigeria (AFP) — Suspected members of a radical Islamic sect have shot dead four people at a beer garden in a north Nigerian town where the group recently staged bomb and gun attacks, police said Monday.
“Four people were killed in an attack by gunmen suspected to be members of Boko Haram sect on a beer parlour in the Bulunkutu surburb of the city last night,” Zakari Adamu, assistant police commissioner for Borno state told AFP.
The attack occurred in Maiduguri, the northeastern city which has been the focus of many attacks and where the group staged an uprising two years ago.
“The gunmen opened fire on people drinking in the beer parlour, killing four before engaging in a shootout with police who were attracted to the scene by gunshots”, Adamu said on the phone from Maiduguri. The assailants escaped.
Although Borno state is one of the 12 northern Nigerian states that have adopted the Muslim Sharia law, which bans alcohol, people there still drink beer openly.
The attack came a week after multiple bomb explosions and shootings targeting two police stations and a church rocked the city.
At least 14 people, including a pentecostal church pastor, were killed and 17 others seriously injured in the attacks.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jLweN0uwT0QDD3seECEzqFSUH1gw?docId=CNG.e59fc62cfa8bb03e475fc4d96b489512.2f1
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fucking lovely
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Nigerian Taliban Gun Down Christian Pastor And Church Secretary, President Say He’s Willing To Negotiate With Them
Sect kills pastor, church worker in north Nigeria
(AP) – Jun 9, 2011
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Police say sect members have gunned down a pastor and church official in Nigeria's restive northeast.
Borno state police chief Mohammed Abubakar said Thursday that assailants killed Rev. David Usman and the assistant secretary at the Church of Christ in Nigeria Tuesday in the city of Maiduguri.
The police blame a radical Muslim sect locally known as Boko Haram for the attack. They believe the gunmen also participated in blasts and attacks hours earlier that left at least ten people dead.
Boko Haram is responsible for a rash of killings which have targeted security officers, politicians and clerics, both Muslim and Christian, in the area over the last year.
Nigeria's president told journalists at the U.N. headquarters Wednesday he would consider negotiating with the group to restore peace.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g0gB6VkwxNXyOqGpR9n41Trp1Ubg?docId=d27dc660627747619828dc4005f5e6e3
Yet no beheadings of innocent UN workers by rampaging Christians.
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Nigerian Taliban Gun Down Wahhabi Cleric For Not Preaching Enough Violence
Ibrahim Birkuti has criticised Boko Haram for killing dozens of security agents and politicians in recent months near the city of Maiduguri.
Like most of the other victims, he was shot dead by a man riding a motorbike, witnesses say.
Hundreds of Boko Haram supporters died during an uprising in 2009.
They attacked police stations in Maiduguri but were defeated and their leader was killed.
The sect campaigns against Western education and is also known locally as the Taliban, after the Afghan group, with which it shares some beliefs.
Mr Birkuti was from the Saudi Arabian-inspired Wahabbi group, which has been gaining ground in the mainly Muslim north of Nigeria in recent years.
He had been one of the most prominent clerics to criticise Boko Haram in Borno State, of which Maiduguri is the capital.
A police spokesman told the BBC he was killed outside his house in the town of Biu, some 200km (120 miles) south of Maiduguri.
"A gunman riding a motorcycle stopped outside the house and brought out a gun from under his shirt and shot him twice at close range before fleeing," Babagana Hanafi, Birkuti's neighbour for 15 years told the AFP news agency.
Last week, Boko Haram told the BBC it had carried out a series of bombings after President Goodluck Jonathan's inauguration last week.
A sect spokesman said it was also responsible for killing the brother of the Shehu of Borno, one of Nigeria's most important Islamic leaders.
In Maiduguri, the police have made hundreds of arrests and even banned motorbikes at night but have not been able to stop the violence.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-13679234
So, I'm guessing America, Britain and Israel are to blame for this, right?
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Nigeria hit by multiple blasts after inauguration, 15 killed
By SHEHU SAULAWA, Associated Press – May 30, 2011
BAUCHI, Nigeria (AP) — Multiple blasts rocked Nigeria's restive Muslim north and a city near the capital following the inauguration of the country's southern Christian president, officials said Monday.
The most powerful of the blasts tore through a bar in a military barracks in the northern city of Bauchi on Sunday, killing 15 people just hours after the swearing-in ceremony, said an official who participated in the rescue efforts.
Bauchi state police chief Mohammed Indabawa said Sunday's blast in the city of Bauchi hit an outdoor bar at about 8 p.m., just hours after the inauguration of President Goodluck Jonathan in Nigeria's capital of Abuja.
Indabawa said 10 people were killed, but the official who helped emergency workers take victims to the hospital and to the mortuary said 15 people were killed and 35 injured. He said he didn't want his name used because the military has said that this is a military affair.
An Associated Press writer who was about 1,300 feet (400 meters) from the Shadawanka Barracks when the blasts went off said he heard three consecutive loud noises at two- to five-minute intervals.
The multiple blasts illustrate the challenges facing Jonathan. The southerner was sworn in Sunday for a full four-year term and is now faced with the task of uniting a country that saw deadly postelection violence despite what observers called the fairest vote in more than a decade.
A spokesman for the National Emergency Management Agency, Yushau Shuaib, said stringent security measures had been taken to prevent such attacks on inauguration day.
"Telecommunications operators blocked service in Abuja yesterday and government took so many other measures to prevent this, but it is unfortunate that this still happened," he said. "The Agency moved in quickly, otherwise this would have been even worse."
One bomb went off Sunday at a beer garden in Zuba, near Nigeria's capital, killing two people and wounding at least 11, Shuaib said.
Another explosion in the northern city of Zaria on Sunday also targeted a bar hours after the inauguration, police spokesman Aminu Lawal said. He said police were still looking into how many may have been wounded in that blast.
And on Monday, two teenagers were injured after stepping on explosives in Zaria, Lawal said.
In the northeast city of Maiduguri, a bomb targeted on Monday an army patrol vehicle, Lt. Abubakar Abdullahi said, adding that there were no casualties and five arrests were made after the incident.
No one has claimed responsibility for any of the blasts.
"For now we are trying to gather intelligence on the perpetrators, make sure the victims are attended to, and investigate the matter," national police spokesman Olusola Amore said of the blasts around the country.
The nation of 150 million people with more than 150 ethnic groups is broadly divided between the Christian-dominated south and the Muslim north. Postelection violence spread quickly across northern states after
early results showed that Jonathan, a Christian from the south, was winning.
Many northerners believed someone from their region should be the next leader after the Muslim president died in office. Late President Yar'Adua had been expected to rule for another term, but his death left the
presidency in the hands of a southerner. An unwritten agreement in the ruling party calls for its presidential candidates to rotate between the country's Christian south and Muslim north.
Bauchi city has a history of sectarian violence and was a scene of rioting and destruction after the April elections.
Bauchi is also a stronghold of a radical Muslim sect locally known as Boko Haram. Its members are accused of a rash of killings in the area in recent months which have targeted police officers, soldiers and political and spiritual leaders.
Boko Haram, which means "Western education is sacrilege" in the Hausa language, has asked pushed for the implementation of Sharia law in northern states.
Authorities blame the group for an explosion at a hotel in April that killed three people and wounded 14 others in Maiduguri, a city close to Bauchi, only days before the state's gubernatorial election.
Tensions in Nigeria are fueled by poverty and unemployment in a country where an unreliable power supply has led to the closure of factories and the loss of tens of thousands of jobs in the textile industry alone
over the last few years, especially in the Muslim north.
Associated Press writer Njadvara Musa in Maiduguri, Nigeria and Yinka Ibukun in Lagos, Nigeria and Ibrahim Garba in Kano, Nigeria contributed to this report.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jCcF3XYPH78MCxBbLki4BF0ApmwA?docId=9a457d78ae2b49e2b7e5136136419499
All within the span of 2 weeks. :-X
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Cathedral bombed in Nigeria
June 09, 2011
The cathedral in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri was heavily damaged in a June 7 bombing.
“St. Patrick’s Cathedral was seriously damaged, windows and doors [were] destroyed, the whole building was shaken to its foundations by the violence of the explosion,” said Bishop Oliver Doeme.
Local authorities said that the Islamist group Boko Haram was responsible for the attack on the cathedral as well as recent attacks on a church, a school, and police stations.
Founded in Maiduguri in 2002, Boko Haram (the words mean “Western or non-Islamic education is a sin”) seeks the imposition of sharia in Nigeria. Boko Haram’s late founder, Ustaz Mohammed Yusuf, told the BBC in 2009 that:
"there are prominent Islamic preachers who have seen and understood that the present Western-style education is mixed with issues that run contrary to our beliefs in Islam. Like rain. We believe it is a creation of God rather than an evaporation caused by the sun that condenses and becomes rain. Like saying the world is a sphere. If it runs contrary to the teachings of Allah, we reject it."
15% of the nation’s 146.5 million people are Catholic, according to Vatican statistics. An estimated 50% are Muslim, 25% are Protestant, and 10% retain indigenous beliefs. Maiduguri is heavily Muslim: the territory covered by the Diocese of Maiduguri is only 2% Catholic.
http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=10600
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Damn jews!
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Nigerian Islamists Attack Beer Garden With Bombs And Gunfire, 30 Killed
SUSPECTED Islamists hurled bombs and fired on a beer garden in the northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, killing at least 25 people and injuring about 30.
The two men came on motorbikes and sped away after the shock attack, police and witnesses told AFP.
"The attackers, believed to be Boko Haram members, threw bombs and fired indiscriminate gun shots on a packed tavern at Dala Kabompi neighbourhood, killing at least 25 people and seriously injuring around 30 others," a police superintendent said.
An army captain, also speaking on condition of anonymity, said: "It will be difficult to say with precision the number of casualties, but it can't be less then two dozen."
Emmanuel Okon, who sells roast beef on the fringes of the tavern, said: "I just heard a loud bang followed by sporadic shootings and plumes of black smoke filled the area with people screaming and running in all directions.
"The wounded and the dead lay on the ground and the place was littered with broken bottles and glasses and personal effects like shoes," he said.
"I didn't count the number of casualties, but I believe those who died are more than 25 and the injured could be more than 30," Okon said.
Nuraini Kanta, a local resident, said he heard a bang followed by a series of gunshots while sitting outside his home, hundreds of metres away.
"I was listening to the radio ... when I heard a loud explosion followed by gunshots and dark smoke ... I instinctively rushed indoors because it was clear that Boko Haram had attacked," he stated.
"I later went to the scene after the casualties had been removed where I learnt that more than 25 people were killed in the attack and dozens of others injured," Mr Kanta said.
The attack came on the day a joint military and police taskforce was launched to combat the spate of bomb and shoot-and-run attacks by sect members in the city.
Borno police chief Mohammed Jinjiri Abubakar had on Thursday issued a statement offering dialogue with the radical Boko Haram sect and urged them to call a truce.
The sect has been behind series of hit-and-run attacks targeting police and military personnel, politicians, and community and religious leaders.
It has also in the past months carried out bomb attacks on police stations, churches and bars, and staged a prison raid.
The sect claimed responsibility for a May 29 bomb attack on a beer garden in a military barracks in northern Bauchi city that killed 13 people and injured 30 others.
The group has also claimed responsibility for the June 16 bomb attack on police headquarters in the Nigerian capital Abuja that killed at least two, including a policeman, saying their target was the national police chief.
Local media said up to eight people were killed in that blast at the police car park that also wounded several other people and damaged dozens of vehicles.
Boko Haram, which means "Western education is sin", launched an uprising in 2009 that was put down by a brutal military assault that left hundreds dead.
Read more: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/killed-in-beer-garden-attack-in-nigeria/story-e6frfku0-1226082568954#ixzz1QWihOdp8
Why does this go unreported by the MSM?
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The middle East was actually pretty far ahead technologically until Islam took over
Funny how people who support Islam always make this point, forgetting that it was actually BEFORE Islam took over it went well in the region