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Vigilantes Armed With Machetes Fight Nigerian Islamists

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This is an important story if you want to know the future.

H/T Ted L

Bloomberg:

Armed with machetes and clubs, vigilantes in Nigeria’s northeastern city of Maiduguri are setting up roadblocks and conducting house-to-house searches to aid the army’s fight against Islamist militants.

While the military welcomes the public’s support in the battle against the Boko Haram Islamist group, human rights activists say vigilantes’ activities may worsen violence and lead to abuses against innocent civilians.

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Joint Military Task Force patrols the streets of Maiduguri, Borno State. Photographer: Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP via Getty Images

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As many as 185 people were killed and more than 2,000 houses were burned down in Baga, near Lake Chad, after security forces responded to a militant attack on April 16, according to local officials and residents. Source: AFP via Getty Images

So far the vigilantes have seized more than 100 suspected insurgents in Maiduguri, the Borno state capital that has borne the brunt of Boko Haram’s violent campaign to impose Shariah law on Nigeria, according to Abubakar Malum, a leader in a group that calls itself the Civilian Joint Task Force.

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Nigeria: ‘Many dead in Boko Haram raid’ in Borno state

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H/T Wrath0fKhan

 BBC:

A wanted poster for a Boko Haram leader in Maiduguri, Borno state, on 1 May 2013 The region in which this attack took place is a Boko Haram stronghold
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Nigeria under attack

Fifty-five people have been killed in the north-east of Nigeria in co-ordinated attacks by the Boko Haram militant group, the Nigerian army says.

It said 105 prisoners were freed in the pre-dawn raid in Bama, Borno state.

Bama’s police station, military barracks and government buildings were burned to the ground, said the military and witnesses.

Correspondents say extremist attacks are common in the region but the scale of bloodshed makes this raid stand out.

This strike – coming on the back of other deadly attacks – undermines the suggestion that the military operation against the militants has diminished the threat they pose, says the BBC’s Will Ross in Lagos.

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Authorities: At least 11 killed by Islamic extremists in attack on northeast Nigeria village

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UPDATE: Here is a link thanks to Don L, to the story connected to the necklacing video.

And the horror continues to escalate. Here is a link to a YT video Magic Martin sent which may or may not be related. It is dated today and is a video of a number of Africans in Nigeria being ‘necklaced’, which is an African custom as I understand it, of putting a tire around someone’s neck then setting it and them on fire. I would only watch it if, well I wouldn’t watch it at all. But the people wearing the tires do not have beards. No idea if that means anything specific.

From FOX:

No arrests were immediately made in the attack, which comes as northern Nigeria faces near-daily attacks by Islamic extremists. The main extremist network there, known as Boko Haram, has been launching attacks since 2010, despite an increased deployment of soldiers and police there.

Kano blasts: Nigerians killed at bus station

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H/T Taffy in Canada

BBC:

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Nigeria under attack

At least 20 people have been killed in a series of explosions at a bus station in the northern Nigerian city of Kano, witnesses say.

Several buses were destroyed in the Sabon Gari area of the city, home to a large population of Christians from the south of the country.

Kano is the largest city in the mainly Muslim north of Nigeria.

No group has said it carried out the blasts but Islamist militants from Boko Haram have attacked Kano several times.

One eye witness told the BBC’s Hausa service that he had seen 20 bodies after the blasts.

Soldiers cordoned off the area after the blasts.

In January 2012, around 150 people died in Kano in a series of co-ordinated attacks by Boko Haram.

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Wrath of Khan also sends this link on this story

Italy, UK, Greece confirm Nigeria hostage deaths

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CNN:

H/T Don L

By Matt Smith, CNN
March 11, 2013 — Updated 0035 GMT (0835 HKT)
An image released by the radical Islamist group Ansaru reportedly shows members posing at an undisclosed place in 2012.
An image released by the radical Islamist group Ansaru reportedly shows members posing at an undisclosed place in 2012.

STORY HIGHLIGHTS
  • “This was an act of cold-blooded murder,” British official says
  • The hostages had been seized from a construction company office in February
  • Their captors blame a raid; Britain says blame “rests squarely with the terrorists”

(CNN) — Britain, Italy and Greece on Sunday confirmed that hostages from their countries were among seven construction workers reported killed in Nigeria over the weekend.

“This was an act of cold-blooded murder, which I condemn in the strongest terms,” British Foreign Secretary William Hague said in a statement announcing that a British construction worker was among the dead.

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French family kidnapped by Boko Haram, forced to make ransom video

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Thanks to Oz-Rita for the translation from French to English. I left the Arabic parts in as those of us who read these kinds of websites probably know enough Arabic by now that we can recognize enough words to get some sense of what threats are being made. I found it interesting that they mention Goodluck Jonathan by name, the president of Nigeria, and there seems to be references to implementing sharia.

The reason I felt this was worth posting is because I think its is extremely important that Western nations as well as Western people take a new attitude towards going to Islamic areas or areas under heavy threat by jihadis.

1. People should not go there. If they do, they should go with the attitude that if they are kidnapped they should expect to die in their custody and probably be tortured in the process.

2. And much more importantly. governments simply must stop funding jihad by paying ransoms for naive morons who go to these places to ‘help’ or for whatever reasons. Thomas Jefferson himself started the Marines because the costs of paying ransoms to Muslim kidnappers was beyond sustainable, not to mention morally repugnant and it was just being used to fuel more jihad against us. We seem to be right back in that exact situation with France, England, Canada and the US paying these bastards to attack us again.

This has to stop.

Oz-Rita, the French translator added the following below in a comment:

From what I gleaned from some other french sites:

1. The family are expatriates, the father works as an engineer for some company. They, father, mother, brother in law and four little boys (oldest 11) were on an outing “in one of the most beautiful places and frequented by tourists”.

2. The threats in arabic contain the straight forward “promise” we will kill them if you dont….blabla

3. One of the captors then threatens in Arabic to kill the hostages, if the demands of the group are not met.

4. The black flag of the jihadists in the back ground  shows  the inscription:  “There is no god but allah and mohamed his prophet”. The group, known as Boko Haram is a radical islamist group who wants to impose Sharia in the north of Nigeria.

5. On the French Government (ergo lefty) TV chain  I have just seen a nearly  8 minutes  long interview with the French Minister for defence, Jean-Yves Le Dian, about this tragedy. Willfully blind to the elephant in the room and obviously a gold medallist in evasive language, he managed to avoid the word “Islam” despite his verbosity, or perhaps because of it.

And lastly: everyone (me included) is absolutely shocked that Islamists should now take even little children hostage.  Have we forgotten Beslan?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csr9TPGPoxs  And yes, they did  torture and <b>rape</b> little boys too! 🙁

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NINE female health workers shot dead in Nigeria as polio revenge attacks spread

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Daily Mail:

  • lsamist militant group Boko Haram been blamed for carrying out attack
  • Witnesses said the gunmen arrived on three-wheel taxis
  • Further setback to efforts to eradicate polio in Nigeria
  • Religious clerics believe vaccines would sterilise children

By Jill Reilly

PUBLISHED: 11:56 GMT, 8 February 2013 | UPDATED: 12:01 GMT, 8 February 2013

Life-saving: A young child receives polio immunization drops at a health post Life-saving: A young child receives polio immunisation drops at a health post

Nine female polio vaccinators have been shot dead in two shootings in northern Nigeria.

Islamist militant group Boko Haram – a sect which has condemned the use of Western medicine – has been blamed for the attack.

In the first attack in Kano the polio vaccinators were shot dead by gunmen who drove up on a motor tricycle, reported the BBC.

Thirty minutes later gunmen targeted a clinic outside Kano city as the vaccinators prepared to start work.

Previously religious clerics had some of their followers stop receiving the vaccines saying that it would sterilise their children.

Boko Haram wants to impose Islamic law, or sharia, on a country of 160 million split roughly equally between Christians and Muslims.

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Journeyman pictures 16 minutes on Mali from Aug 2012

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H/T Don L

This is quite good. They keep emphasizing that all people here are Muslims but many or most cannot tolerate the Al Queda style rule they are imposing everywhere they go. As the African Muslims most likely do not read Arabic and have no idea what is in the Koran at all, their being Muslim is likely more a vestigial cultural remnant more than an actual observed religion. Also I highly doubt the claim that Mali is the “most culturally diverse place on earth”.

The Islamic version of Santaria is interesting and not surprising to anyone familiar with black culture in South America and parts of the US south. Good luck on the magic though.

Gunmen kill six at Nigerian Christmas service

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France 24:

Gunmen kill six at Nigerian Christmas service
© AFP file photo from Christmas 2011

Gunmen attacked a church in northern Nigeria during a midnight mass on Christmas Eve, killing six people including the pastor, before setting the building ablaze, residents and police said Tuesday.

By FRANCE 24 (text)

Gunmen killed six people attending midnight mass at a church in northern Nigeria on Christmas Eve, police and residents confirmed on Tuesday.

“A group of gunmen came into the village at midnight and went straight to the church… they opened fire on them, killing the pastor and five worshippers. They then set fire to the church,” said Usman Mansir, resident of Peri village, near Potiskum, the economic capital of Yobe state.

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Nigerian Muslim group slaughters 20 young women

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H/T EDL Buck

Digital Journal:

   By Larry Clifton

Nov 24, 2012 in Politics

Previous boko haram slaughter

 

Maiduguri– Friday, about a day after 10 men were killed in Maiduguri, at least 20 women, some clad in mini-skirts and others in slacks, were slaughtered in their Maiduguri homes and college dormitories.

While members of the Boko Haram terrorist organizationare suspected of committing the heinous terrorist acts, police have not confirmed the identities nor arrested any suspects.

Members of the radical Islamic terrorist group believe Western education is sinful. The group is a jihadist militant organization based in northeast Nigeria that violently opposes man-made laws and modern science, according to an allafrica.com report.

Friday, the Nigerian Joint Task Force, Operation ‘Restore Order,’ placed a bounty on suspected terrorists and members of Boko Haram.

The new execution-style violence is different than other recent killings conducted by Boko Haram Muslims in that it targeted women only. Authorities believe the women may have been slaughtered due to dressing in Western style.

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Boko Haram attacks police base in Abuja as police launch manhunt

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H/T Michael Laudahn

From Premium Times NG:

Published: November 26,2012

The deadly sect says it has put its house in order for more attacks

Gunmen, early Monday, attacked the headquarters of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, in Abuja leading to a shootout for many hours.

The men are believed to be members of the Boko Haram  sect who attempted to free their members being held by the police.

PREMIUM TIMES learnt that the attack was repelled by the police. No casualty was reported.

The daring attack came less than 24 hours after suspected Boko Haram members detonated explosives at a church in a major military training compound in Jaji, Kaduna State.

A man, who claimed to be a senior member of the sect told PREMIUM TIMES, Monday, that “we (the group) have put our house in order and Nigerians have not seen anything yet.”

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Also, read the comments at that site. They may seem spookily familiar. Political correctness and selective enforcement seems to be an issue in Africa as well as Europe. One feels an instant kinship with the Christians and secularists of Nigeria when you read them.

More children murdered by Muslims for the glory of Islam

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From Information Nigeria:

Three children between the ages of 5,7 and 12 were Thursday slaughtered in the presence of their mother in Sulimanti ward of Maiduguri metropolis when the bread winner Mr. Aduju Zubairu an SSS personnel was away, even as five others were also shot dead during a night attack by gunmen suspected to be members of Jamatul Ahlis Sunnah Lid Daawa wal Jihad popularly known as Boko Haram.

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