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    Radical Muslim sect kills 12 in northeast Nigeria

    By NJADVARA MUSA - Associated Press | AP – Thu, Aug 25, 2011

    MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — A radical Muslim sect blamed for attacks across northeast Nigeria bombed a police station and robbed two banks Thursday, killing 12 people in an assault highlighting the group's escalating willingness to shed blood, authorities said.

    The sect, known locally as Boko Haram, stormed into the city of Gobi in Adamawa state in broad daylight, first attacking the police precinct with bombs and raking the building with gunfire, police commissioner A.T. Shinaba said. The group killed four police officers and a soldier guarding the area, he said.

    The sect members then shot their way into two local branches of First Bank PLC and United Bank for Africa PLC, killing seven bank employees before speeding away with an unknown amount of cash, Shinaba said. Four others suffered injuries in the attack.

    "Our police station was attacked this morning by a gang of suspected Boko Haram gunmen in vehicles and motorbikes," the shaken police commissioner told journalists. We are "combing the bush for fleeing sect members."

    Nigeria, home to 150 million people, suffers from a weak police force more focused on collecting bribes than law enforcement in the oil-rich nation. The force also has been unable to handle the rise of Boko Haram, which many believed had been dismantled after a security crackdown following a sect riot in 2009 left 700 people dead.

    The group, whose name means "Western education is sacrilege" in the local Hausa language, seeks the implementation of strict Shariah Islamic law in the country. Nigeria is largely split between a Christian south and Muslim north, where 12 states already have a version of Shariah in place.

    Boko Haram has been blamed for a rash of killings targeting security officers, local leaders and clerics in the area over the last year. It also has claimed responsibility for a bombing at the nation's police headquarters that killed two people in June.

    This would be the first bank robbery attributed to the group, though sophisticated attacks on banks have been carried on banks in north Nigeria in recent weeks.

     

    178 comments

    • J-Mack
      J-Mack  •  9 mths ago
      People please, don't you know that Islam is the religion of peace and love. Just ask the murderers and they will quickly tell you that. I keep thinking that the world will eventually get fed up with this plague on mankind, but it just doesn't seem to be happening.
    • S.
      S.  •  9 mths ago
      READ the Bile and it tells you - Lucifre's name means - bring of light, the morning light, etc

      read the quran and it tells you allah's name means - bringer of light, the morning light
    • S
      S  •  9 mths ago
      was not pro. Mohammed a highway robber of Arabian carvans?
      no wonder the follower turn up to be like the pro.
    • S
      S  •  9 mths ago
      was not pro. Mohammed a high robber?
      no wonder the follower turn up to be like the pro.
    • Ismaila
      Ismaila  •  9 mths ago
      a weak police force more focus with collecting bribes than their constutional resposiblities,is sad to say the least,but is high time the media focus more on its leaders than blaming all
    • Francis O
      Francis O  •  9 mths ago
      What a wickedness! Terrorists can never go unpunished either here on earth or thereafter period!
    • Joe
      Joe  •  9 mths ago
      I LOATH and DESPISE islam and muslims! A good muslim is an expired muslim.
    • Joe
      Joe  •  9 mths ago
      F----U----C----K islam and all muslims. When I hear the word "muslim" I think excrement. Islam is synonymous with excrement. I am FED UP with all this muslim violence and killing! I am FED UP with islam and muslims! Islam and muslims have to go!!!
    • Max the Disturbed Vizsla
      Max the Disturbed Vizsla  •  9 mths ago
      Western education is sacrilege but killing people for money is ok. Wow.
    • W M
      W M  •  9 mths ago
      Clearly islam is the most perverted and evil ideology on the face of the earth today.
      • Ray
        Ray 9 mths ago
        If we had all the modern news reporting and communication back in the early days of our nation, I wonder what it would say about the Witch killings and slaughter of the Native Americans? Or what about the killing and fighting between Protestants and Catholics in Ireland? Let's not through stones at religions when it is actually the deluded people with their own beliefs who hide behind their religions to advance their own criminal intentions! Even though we are a mighty nation we still need to watch and not become arrogant.
      • S.
        S. 9 mths ago
        SHUT YOUR MUSLIM #$%$ UP - RAY
      • Ray
        Ray 9 mths ago
        Not Muslim, Wiccan. Remember, the ones Christians burnt at the stake for worshiping the natural elements of the Earth.
    • Tony
      Tony  •  9 mths ago
      All religion is goofy. Islam is just the most extreme of the lot and the most dangerous.
    • HARSH REALITY
      HARSH REALITY  •  9 mths ago
      the turban bomb ,,, another mindless muslim invention
    • HARSH REALITY
      HARSH REALITY  •  9 mths ago
      islamic flame throwers , are ok ,,,, there is one good thing about islam , their punishment for homosexuality is being thrown from a high place ,,,
    • HARSH REALITY
      HARSH REALITY  •  9 mths ago
      one day in somewhere in islam a starving 8 year old child stole a loaf of bread as punishment the muslims drove a truck over his arm , crushing it as the child watched. a christian would have fed the child and taught him wrong from right , a jew would feed the child then make him work off the cost of the meal
    • Jason
      Jason  •  9 mths ago
      Muslim = Must bomb
    • JustTheFactsPlease
      JustTheFactsPlease  •  9 mths ago
      Give them the noteriety that they seek and you will see a recurrance of the same behaviors. But the media has the need to sustain ratings; don't they? They cause more trouble than they are worth.
    • HARSH REALITY
      HARSH REALITY  •  9 mths ago
      do defeat islam you must defeat its evil ideologies
    • HARSH REALITY
      HARSH REALITY  •  9 mths ago
      hate ? its kind of hard to like anyone whos ideologies want you dead because you dont believe and submit to is sick evil lies and hate ,, islam is unworthy of calling itself a religion
    • END_MONEY_LOBBYING
      END_MONEY_LOBBYING  •  9 mths ago
      If you use tragedies to persecute innocent people, then you are just as guilty.
      • Joe
        Joe 9 mths ago
        You have biscuits and gravy up your rear,
      • John
        John 9 mths ago
        Innocent? Innocent of what?
    • P
      P  •  9 mths ago
      The only way you get rid of this constant violence in the Middle East is you nuke the whole place then start all over again fresh.
      • Ray
        Ray 9 mths ago
        God already tried that one (total annihilation through the flood). Didn't work. Oh yeah...the flood...that means that we are all related through Noah! Are you saying to kill members of our own families??? Yep, that's what you said.
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