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Suicide bomber kills five outside Nigerian mosque
 [ARABNEWS] A jacket wallah targeting worshippers at a mosque in a remote village in northeast Nigeria... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... killed five people and maimed dozens, a security source said on Saturday, in an area where Lions of Islam are mounting attacks almost daily. The source, who declined to be named, said Mohammedans in the village of Konduga were observing Friday prayers when the pick-up truck approached. A local vigilante group stopped the truck to inspect it and the bomber then detonated the bomb a few meters away from the mosque, he said. Witness Mohammadu Sheriff said he had seen the vigilantes conducting checks on a pick-up van carrying firewood. "Suddenly it went kaboom!," he told Rooters on phone. "It would have been more devastating if the bomber had succeeded in driving near the mosque, which had over a thousand people in it." The Death Eater group 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... has killed many thousands since launching an uprising in 2009, and several hundred in the past two months, as it has stepped up a campaign against civilians in the northeast. The kidnapping of more than 200 schoolgirls by Boko Haram from the village of Chibok in April made world headlines. Despite pledges of Western support and promises by 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... to free them, they remain in captivity. A spate of bombings across the north and center of Nigeria in the past three months has also demonstrated the rebels' ability to strike outside of their northeastern stronghold. Posted by: Fred 2014-07-06 |
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