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| Guns fall silent in Nigeria | |
| 2009-07-31 | |
| You can almost hear Taps on the harmonica...as the boys come limping home. [Iran Press TV Latest] As guns fall silent in Nigeria, it seems that the immediate crisis in the country may be over, but the threat of violence still remains, residents say. Residents of Maiduguri the capital of Borno State in Nigeria where the clashes occurred, after days of imprisonment in their homes due to fighting between Nigerian troops and Taliban-inspired insurgents, streamed out onto corpse-littered streets. Traffic was gradually returning to normal to the deserted streets as locals tried to stock up on depleted supplies and lined up in huge queues to withdraw cash at automatic teller machines. The smell of death still hung in the air as there were still signs of tension in this arid city where hours ago, government security forces had attacked a mosque filled with militants, killing scores of fighters and forcing more to flee. The militants had aimed to overthrow the federal government in Abuja, capital of Africa's most populous country of 165 million, and impose a strict version of Taliban-style Sharia law in the whole of the multiethnic country, which has a fairly even population of Muslims and Christians. The sect's leader, Mohammed Yusuf, along with some 300 of his men had apparently escaped government arrest, but he was later shot dead following his capture, according to police. Footage of his bullet-riddled body was shown on state television. Hey! You can't do that! OUCH OUCH OUCH OUCH OUCH OUCH...OUCH Rosebud. Five days of clashes, sparked by attacks on police stations and government buildings, have killed at least 300 people.
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| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 but he was later shot dead following his capture Now that's a clean ending. No multimillion dollar incarceration, an endless stream of taxpayer funded lawyers, demands and appeals, only to be shipped off to an Caribbean or Pacific island paradise for a $20 million/head bribe. |
| Posted by: ed 2009-07-31 00:43 |