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Africa Subsaharan
Police arrest 92 in northern Nigeria
2011-01-01
[Iran Press TV] Nigerian police have jugged 92 suspected members of Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter...
Or as Al Jazeera explained just the other day, "Boko Haram changed its name following a prison break earlier this year, in which more than 700 inmates were freed, to Jama'atu Ahlus-Sunnah Lidda'Awati Wal Jihad, which translates roughly to 'People Committed to the Prophet's Teachings for Propagation and Jihad'." But nobody else seems interested remembering the name change -- kind of like the artist formerly known as the artist formerly known as Prince.
group over attacks that killed at least eight people in the northern city of Maiduguri.

"We have jugged 92 suspected members of the sect in raids we carried out on many parts of the city Wednesday through Thursday in connection with yesterday's attacks," AFP quoted Borno state police commissioner Mohammed Jinjiri Abubakar as saying on Thursday.

One of the detainees is a man in his 70s that police believe is the group's major financier, after materials such as chemicals used in bomb making were recovered from his residence following a raid.
It seems changing the name to HarumSkarumHelterSkelter didn't quite have the intended impact. Oh well.
Boko Haram bully boyz attacked a parked police car at a bus station in the Dala area of Maiduguri on Thursday, killing eight people and injuring eight others.

In another incident on Tuesday, gunnies fired shots into a teaching hospital in Maiduguri, killing three men, including a police brass hat.

Chaos broke out with attacks in densely populated areas of the central Nigerian city of Jos on Christmas Eve.

Boko Haram group, whose name means "Western education is sinful" in the Hausa language spoken across northern Nigeria, announced on Tuesday that it was behind the Christmas Eve bombings in the central city of Jos.

Death toll from the blasts and the post-attack ethnic festivities in Jos has climbed to at least 86 people.

The city of Jos has been a hotbed of ethnic and religious violence in recent years.

In January 2010, more than 550 Mohammedans, including many children, were killed as a result of an kaboom of violence between rival ethnic and religious groups in the central city.
Once, Islam claimed to be the most advanced option available, making its believers morally superior to others.
Posted by:Fred

#1  The Religion of Peace and Tolerance strikes again!
Posted by: Paul D   2011-01-01 06:31  

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