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Nigeria Boko Haram spokesman arrested
 (Rooters) - Nigeria's secret service set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock the purported front man for Islamist bully boy sect Boko Haram... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. Currently wearing a false nose and moustache and answering to Jama'atu Ahlus-Sunnah Lidda'Awati Wal Jihad, or Big Louie... Wednesday, a group that has grabbed credit for a string of deadly bombings and gun attacks, a secret service source told Rooters. A swat team stormed the dwelling of the man known as 'Abu Qaqa' in the northern city of Kaduna in the early hours of the morning and found him hiding under his bed,
The past three months have seen a surge in violence by Boko Haram, a movement loosely modeled on Afghanistan's Taliban which says it is fighting to install sharia law across Nigeria. The arrest of a senior Boko Haram figure would be a coup for the administration of President  Goodluck Jonathan... 14th President of Nigeria. He was Governor of Bayelsa State from 9 December 2005 to 28 May 2007, and was sworn in as Vice President on 29 May 2007. Jonathan is a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). He is a lover of nifty hats, which makes him easily recognizable unless someone else in the room is wearing a neat chapeau... which has been criticized for failing to curb the sect's violent activities in the mainly Moslem north. The reported arrest came two weeks after the prime suspect in a Christmas Day bombing on a church on the edge of Abuja beat feet from police custody, prompting Jonathan to sack his police chief. "We are still talking to him. Since 'Abu Qaqa' is a pseudonym for the Boko Haram front man, we want to be sure of who we have with us. But we have been on his trail for months now. He's been changing locations and contacts," the State Security Services (SSS) source said. "He is fairly educated. He is from the Ibiza ethnic group, from Kogi state in north central Nigeria," the SSS official added. A spokeswoman for the SSS said she had no information on the incident. The police front man also declined to confirm it. A man calling himself Abu Qaqa often appeared in local media after bomb and gun attacks to claim them for the group and justify the choice of target. For a long time Abu Qaqa was the closest thing the sect had to a public face, before its purported leader Abubakar Shekau posted a video of himself last month on YouTube. VICTIMS BURIED Abu Qaqa said Boko Haram carried out the Christmas Day kaboom that killed 37 people. He also grabbed credit for a coordinated series of gun and kabooms two weeks ago in the second city of Kano that killed 186 in the group's deadliest strike to date. Nigeria conducted a mass burial Wednesday of 17 of the victims from the kaboom on St Theresa church in Madalla, a satellite town of Abuja. The other 20 had already been buried. Bishops in golden robes conducted a somber service for the Christmas bomb victims, while pall bearers in red polo shirts carried the 17 caskets. Posted by: Fred 2012-02-02 |
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