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Nigeria arrests Kaduna bombings suspect: Ministry
 [Iran Press TV] Nigeria has tossed in the calabooseBook 'im, Mahmoud! a man in connection with two separate bombings in the northern city of Kaduna, the Defense Ministry says. In a statement issued on Friday, the ministry said the unnamed suspect, a young man dressed as a woman, was detained immediately after the second kaboom on Wednesday.
According to security sources, more than 80 people were killed in the blasts. The first attack that left 32 people dead took place when a holy man and his congregation were targeted on a busy commercial road. Sheik Dahiru Bauchi, who was giving an annual Ramadan speech, was targeted by the blast but survived. Shortly after the first kaboom, the second kaboom killed 50 people in a crowded local market named Kawo. The target of the second attack was reportedly opposition leader Muhammadu Buhari who also escaped unhurt. "This blast, coming in the holy month of Ramadan, is a clear indication that those behind the act have no iota of fear of God," Kaduna state governor, Mukhtar Ramalan Yero, said in a statement. No group has yet grabbed credit for the violence, but it came in light of growing militancy in Nigeria by the 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... Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... Lion of Islams. The notorious group has repeatedly targeted civilians, mostly in the remote northeastern state of Borno, killing more than 2,000 civilians since January. On April 14, Boko Haram kidnapped 276 students from their secondary school in the town of Chibok in Borno. Reports say 57 of the girls managed to escape, but 219 are still missing and international efforts to spot and rescue them have failed so far. Boko Haram -- whose name means "Western education is forbidden" -- says its goal is to overthrow the Nigerian government. Posted by: Fred 2014-07-26 |
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