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Gunmen torch police station, kill inspector, two others
[Guardian Ng] FRESH violence erupted in Borno State on Monday and Tuesday, as gunnies suspected to be members of Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
sect, in separate operations, torched the Konduga Divisional Police Station, killing an inspector (name withheld) and two others in Lassa town.

Meanwhile,
...back at the barn, Bossy had come up with a new idea...
the Federal High Court, Abuja Division, Tuesday rejected a bid by Senator Ali Ndume to stop his trial for alleged acts of terrorism and sponsorship of the violent Boko Haram Islamic sect.

In a related development, President Francois Hollande
...the Socialist president of La Belle France, and a fine job he's doing of it...
confirmed that seven Frenchies from one family, including four children, were yesterday kidnapped in Northern Cameroun and said he suspected a Nigerian group was responsible, according to the Agence La Belle France Presse (AFP).

The gunnies, according to an eyewitness, used Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) and petro-bombs in torching the cop shoppe and vehicles packed in the place. Konduga and Lassa towns are 40 kilometres east and 195 kilometres south of Maiduguri, the state capital, and suspected hideouts for the Boko Haram sect.

The source told The Guardian that the gunnies took the coppers at Konduaga unawares when they stormed the place, disclosing that the official vehicle of the slain police officer along with several other vehicles at the station were also set ablaze.

At Lassa, police sources also said that gunnies had on Monday evening stormed two houses and killed a member of a vigilance group and farmer. A Lassa resident claimed that the victims were alleged to be informants to the security agents. The State Police Public Relations Officer, Gideon Jibrin, confirmed the incident, adding, however, that no arrests had been made.

Meanwhile,
...back at the sea battle, the Terror of the Baltic's career had come to an abrupt and watery end...
Ndume had filed an application praying for an interim stay of action to enable him pursue his appeal seeking to upturn two interlocutory orders made by the trial court. In his ruling, however, Justice Gabriel Kolawole refused his application for interim stay. Instead, he granted Ndume 60 days to prosecute his appeal.

The matter is therefore adjourned to May 6 for mention while the accused/applicant would continue to enjoy his bail. The court also admitted three DVDs that contained alleged record of communication between the accused/applicant and the Boko Haram members.

On the issue of kidnap of tourists in Cameroun, Hollande said: "What is most probable is they were taken to Nigeria," adding that they were seized by a Nigeria-based "terrorist group that we know well." The tourists were reportedly kidnapped by faceless myrmidons in Northern Cameroun, near the border with Nigeria, a source close to the French Embassy in Yaounde said.

"Seven Frenchies were captured today by men, apparently on cycle of violences, in the Camerounian locality of Dadanga on the frontier with Nigeria," the source said.
Posted by: Fred 2013-02-20
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