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| Africa Subsaharan |
| Boko claims Nigeria bomb attack that killed 15 |
| 2012-06-05 |
| [Al Ahram] A radical Islamist sect has grabbed credit for a suicide car booming at a north Nigeria church that killed at least 15 people. In a statement sent to journalists Monday, a front man for the sect known as 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... claimed Sunday's attack in the city of Bauchi, the capital of Bauchi state. The statement also again threatened journalists in Nigeria over what the statement described biased stories about the sect's actions. Sunday's bombing maimed dozens of people, as the car boom detonated as worshippers left an early morning church service. Boko Haram is waging an increasingly bloody sectarian fight with Nigeria's weak central government. The sect is blamed for killing more than 550 people this year alone, according to an News Agency that Dare Not be Named count. |
| Posted by:Fred |