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Africa Subsaharan
Nigeria ‘foils Boko Haram attack on UK & US embassies’
2017-04-13
[RT] Nigeria’s secret police have thwarted a plot by Death Eater Islamist 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...
to launch attacks on the UK and US embassies in the capital Abuja, the country’s Department of State Services (DSS) has said in a statement.
The DSS says it has locked away
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
five people who had planned terrorist attacks on the embassies, as well as other Western "interests," to take place on March 25 and 26.

The forces reportedly uncovered the plot as they dismantled an Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(IS, formerly ISIS/ISIS)-linked cell based in Benue State and Federal Capital Territory.

The statement, signed by DSS official Tony Opuiyo, said: "The group had perfected plans to attack the UK and American Embassies and other western interests in Abuja."

Boko Haram, a terrorist organization based in northeast Nigeria
... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border...
, has led an eight-year insurgency in the country.

While some of those kidnapped later managed to escape, and 21 were released thanks to government negotiations, more than 200 remain missing.

In its statement, the DSS also said that on March 22 it arrested a 20-year-old Boko Haram member from the town of Fika, in the Yobe State of Nigeria, who admitted involvement in the holy warrior group’s activities.
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