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Fears of New Islamist Threat Emerge in Nigeria -- Beware the Shiites?
Something to ponder on a relatively slow news day. Thank goodness the price of oil has fallen even as President Obama's nuclear "deal" with Iran is allowing them to sell more oil, limiting their ability to get into mischief.
[AnNahar] Nigeria, which is still battling 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...
myrmidons, now risks unleashing a new Islamist threat after violent festivities between the army and a radical Shiite group, experts say.

Though no official corpse count was released, at least a dozen members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) were killed in confrontations with the army during a religious procession last week in the northern city of Zaria.
Posted by: trailing wife 2015-12-20
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=439257