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2 Nigerian Networks Designated as Terrorist Groups
[ABCNEWS.GO] Lawmakers who had long pushed for U.S. action against Nigerian Islamic faceless myrmidons welcomed the State Department's decision on Wednesday to designate two krazed killer groups as foreign terrorist organizations blamed for the deaths of thousands of people in Africa's most populous nation.Ansaru and 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... which have links to al-Qaeda, are waging a brutal campaign against military, government and civilian targets, including Christians like Habila Adamu, who delivered emotional congressional testimony about being shot in the face because he refused to renounce his faith. Adamu recounted how masked gunnies came to his home in Yobe state around 11 p.m. on Nov. 28, 2012. "I told them 'I'm ready to die as a Christian.' Before I closed my mouth, one of them fired at me with an AK-47. It passed through my nose," Adamu said, holding up photographs taken of the entry wound on his nose and exit wound on the side of his neck. "I fell down. ... Blood is rushing everywhere. One of them followed me, stepped on me two times to confirm whether I am still alive or I am dead." When they assumed he was dead, they shouted "Allah akbar," which means "Allah is great." Even his wife thought he was dead. When she learned he was alive, she rushed to find help, only to learn that their neighbors, who also were Christians, had been killed. About seven hours later, Adamu was taken for medical treatment and survived. Today, he has a message for anyone who will hear his story: "Do everything that you can to end this ruthless, religious persecution in northern Nigeria." Adamu testified at a joint hearing of two House Foreign Affairs' subcommittees, on Africa and terrorism. New Jersey Republican Rep. Chris Smith, who chaired the hearing, said Boko Haram also is targeting their fellow Musselmens who do not agree with their bully boy views, Musselmen religious leaders who criticize violence and people affiliated with the Nigerian government, which they see as corrupt and unjust. Smith said the two groups also participate in the global Islamic bully boy movement. Boko Haram was responsible for a suicide kaboom of the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... building in the capital, Abuja, in August 2011, which killed 21 people. In addition to being labeled foreign terrorist organizations, Boko Haram and Ansaru also were named to a list of specially designated global terrorist groups under federal law. The two designations mean that business and financial transactions with the organizations are blocked. "By cutting these terrorist organizations off from U.S. financial institutions and enabling banks to freeze assets held in the United States, these designations demonstrate our strong support for Nigeria's fight against terrorism and its efforts to address security challenges in the north," Lisa Monaco, President Barack Obama If you have a small business, you didn't build that... 's top counterterrorism adviser, said in a statement. Linda Thomas-Greenfield, assistant secretary of state for African affairs, told the politicians that the government of Nigeria needs to not only stop Boko Haram's attacks, but address long-standing complaints about government corruption and unfairness that attracts disaffected youth in northern Nigeria to the krazed killer groups. Both citizens and security forces have been attacked, yet she said the U.S. remains concerned that some heavy-handed Nigerian security forces have committed human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... violations in response to Boko Haram. Posted by: Fred 2013-11-14 |
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