"Taliban, although the group has no known affiliation with Taliban fighters in Afghanistan.... a group that wants to impose Taliban-style rule across this multi-religious country.... the Nigerian Taliban"
Well, when you are planning a world war based on lies, these connections help a s***-eating public gulp down more bowls of s*** stew.
Aren't most, if not all, countries multi-religious? Hey, what's one more piece of agenda-pushing propaganda, huh?
Related: "Nigeria fighting rages as death toll passes 300
AmeriKa's African War Agenda
Thus we get "Islamists" as a "threat."
"Militants attack police station in Nigeria" by Associated Press | July 27, 2009
ABUJA, Nigeria - Islamist militants attacked a police station in northern Nigeria yesterday, and police killed 39 militants and arrested more than 150, a police spokesman said.
After the "militants" called a ceasefire and the Army sent boats there, huh?
Why do I not believe the authorities, huh?
The Islamist fighters attacked a station in the capital of Bauchi State, said Mohammed Barau, state police spokesman. He said no police officers were killed. Fifteen Islamist fighters were injured and 156 were arrested, he said.
“The fundamentalists, known as Pokoharam in the local language, are those clamoring for the prohibition of Western education in the state,’’ Barau said. “They were armed with different types of dangerous weapons. There were so many of them.’’
Emmanuel Ojukwu, Nigerian national police spokesman, said the fighters were “armed with guns, bows and arrows, and explosives.’’
Ojukwu said calm in Bauchi, the state capital, was quickly restored.--more--"
Remember that lie, please.
And THIS RIGHT HERE is ALL I CARE ABOUT!!!!
Children took refuge yesterday in a police office after clashes between security forces and Islamist radicals in Maiduguri. Fighting in the northern Nigerian city raged for a second day. (Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP/Getty Images)
Oh, my. Have you EVER SEEN such BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN?
"Tense calm in Nigerian towns; Troops surround militant hide-out" by Njadvara Musa, Associated Press | July 29, 2009
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria - Army troops traded fire with Islamic militants yesterday and surrounded the suspected hide-out of a radical Muslim leader accused of orchestrating three days of violence in Africa’s most populous nation.
A tense calm returned to several towns elsewhere in northern Nigeria after authorities imposed curfews and poured security forces onto the streets to quell militant attacks against police, which have killed dozens of people since Sunday.
Sporadic gunfire was reported through the day in Maiduguri, capital of Borno state, where some of the worst violence occurred Monday. Police exchanged intermittent fire with militants as they tried to raid their camps in the city, according to local journalist Olugbenga Akinbule. He said more than 3,000 people had been displaced in the city.
That's a different place than the Monday report, readers. WTF, MSM?
Later in the day, the army sent armored vehicles to Maiduguri and deployed them in a residential district that is believed to be a stronghold of the sect. Officers said they believed militant leader Ustaz Mohammed Yusuf was holed up in a house in the district. As army vehicles approached and opened fire, sect members fired back, soldiers said. An Associated Press reporter in the area saw smoke billowing above homes.
That's keeping calm.
Army Major General Saleh Maina said troops were hunting for sect members in homes and a mosque and near the Maiduguri railway station. He said the operation was being carried out “to prevent further loss of lives and property.’’
By causing further loss of lives and property.
National police Chief Ogbonnaya Onovo said Monday that at least 55 people have died in the violence since it began Sunday, including 50 militants and five police officers. His spokesman Emmanuel Ojukwu said yesterday authorities were still adding up the number of dead and arrested, and declined to give total figures.
Late Monday, President Umar Yar’Adua’s called for calm and ordered security forces “to take all necessary action to contain and repel the sad and shocking attacks by extremists on police posts and public buildings.’’
This WHOLE REPORT is STARTING to STINK to HIGH HEAVEN!!!!
Nigeria’s 140 million people are nearly evenly divided between Christians, who predominate in the south, and primarily northern-based Muslims. Shariah, or Islamic law, was implemented in 12 northern states after Nigeria returned to civilian rule in 1999 following years of oppressive military regimes. More than 10,000 Nigerians have died in sectarian violence since then.
Seeing as that is the only time the racist, agenda-pushing Zionist MSM mentions it, one is forced to ask CUI BONO? WHO benefits when Christians and Muslims are at each others' throats?
Combine that with the goal of establishing African bases and VOILA!
The radical sect behind the latest violence is known by several different names, including Al-Sunna wal Jamma, or “Followers of Mohammed’s Teachings’’ in Arabic, and “Boko Haram,’’ which means “Western education is sin’’ in the local Hausa dialect. Onovo referred to the militants as Taliban, although the group has no known affiliation with Taliban fighters in Afghanistan.
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That's why you are getting the insult theme; I'm simply sick of this s*** passing itself off as news.
"Hundreds flee battle in north Nigeria" by Associated Press | July 30, 2009
Great; another refugee crisis the MSM can ignore.
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria - Soldiers in tanks and armored cars besieged the shelled compound of a radical Islamist sect and sporadic gunfire exploded as hundreds of innocents fled yesterday, the third day of fighting in the northern city of Maiduguri.
Relief official Apollus Jediel said about 1,000 people had abandoned their homes, joining 3,000 displaced this week in four states caught up in the violence. It is not known how many scores of people have been killed. Police say most of the dead are militants, from a group that wants to impose Taliban-style rule across this multi-religious country of 140 million. Dozens of people have been arrested.
Reporters on the ground say the trouble started with militants attacking a police station in Bauchi state Sunday. Then they attacked police in Kano, Yobe and Borno, of which Maiduguri is the capital. But President Umaru Yar’Adua disputed that, saying troops struck first.
“I want to emphasize that this is not an inter-religious crisis and it is not the Taliban group that attacked the security agents first, no. It was as a result of a security information gathered on their intention . . . to launch a major attack,’’ the Nigerian leader told journalists before he left Tuesday night for a state visit to Brazil. “The situation is under control,’’ Yar’Adua said.
So the MSM or government lied? May the saints preserve ye, lady!
But people around Maiduguri railway station area, a stronghold of the sect, said they were kept up all night by running gunbattles. From dawn, people started streaming out, carrying bundles of belongings and cooking pots.
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And not to fear. The GOVERNMENT EXECUTED the GUY!
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria - The leader of the Islamist sect blamed for days of violence in northern Nigeria was fatally shot while in police custody, officials said yesterday.
The police commander of Borno state announced on state radio that Mohammed Yusuf, leader of the sect some call the Nigerian Taliban, has “died in police custody.’’
He gave no further explanation, but the state governor’s spokesman, Usman Ciroma, said: “I saw his body at police headquarters. I believe he was shot while he was trying to escape.’’
Yeah, sure. The authorities ALWAYS say that!
Yusuf’s death could provoke more violence, though his followers in the Boko Haram sect may be in disarray. Troops shelled his compound in the northern city of Maiduguri on Wednesday, but Yusuf, 39, managed to escape with about 300 followers, some of them armed. His deputy, Bukar Shekau, was killed in the attack, according to Army commander Major General Saleh Maina.
Troops killed about 100 militants by an AP reporter’s count. Soldiers then launched a manhunt, and Yusuf was reportedly found in a goat’s pen at the home of his in-laws.
I don't know, readers.
First spider holes, now goat pens?
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Leading Nigerian rights groups accuse security forces of killing bystanders. A military spokesman denied the accusation and said it was impossible for rights workers to tell who was a civilian and who was a member of Boko Haram, which means “Western education is sin’’ in the Hausa language.
The government warned people to evacuate before the attack on the compound, then shelled it and stormed the group’s mosque.
And NOW we find out it is JUST as the BLOGS have said all along -- despite the one-sided, pro-government reporting by the Amerikan MSM.
"In the rush for unexploited natural resources, Africa is fast becoming the new Middle East. And various countries are looking to prop up any governments - no matter how corrupt they might be - to protect those assets for themselves. As reported in: http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2009/06/07/nigeria-abusers-reign-midterm?print on 7 June, 2009:
"President Umaru Yar'Adua of Nigeria, halfway through his presidential mandate, has undermined the country's foremost anti-corruption body, done little to rein in an abusive police force, and failed to address the root causes of the escalating crisis in the Niger Delta, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch said in a letter to Yar'Adua that there have been serious setbacks during the first two years in addressing Nigeria's chronic human rights problems and endemic corruption." -- Wake the Flock Up