"30 killed in school attack in northeast Nigeria; Latest attack by radicals against Western teaching" by Adamu Adamu | Associated Press, July 06, 2013
POTISKUM, Nigeria — Islamic militants attacked a boarding school before dawn Saturday, dousing a dormitory in fuel and lighting it ablaze as students slept, survivors said. At least 29 students and one teacher were killed in the deadliest attack yet on schools in Nigeria’s embattled northeast.
Authorities blamed the violence on Boko Haram, a radical group whose name means ‘‘Western education is sacrilege.’’
Their spokesman is Abdul Qa-Qa, no kidding.
The militants have been behind a series of recent attacks on schools in the region, including one in which gunmen opened fire on children taking exams in a classroom....
I'm sorry, but Islamic militants simply means intelligence agency operations or government hit squads.
And what revolution and insurgency wins support that way, huh? Who benefits, and who is made to look bad?
On Saturday, at the morgue of Potiskum General Hospital, a few miles from the scene of the attack, parents screamed in anguish as they attempted to identify the victims, many charred beyond recognition....
Farmer Malam Abdullahi found the bodies of two of his sons, a 10-year-old shot in the back as he apparently tried to run away, and a 12-year-old shot in the chest.
‘‘The gunmen are attacking schools and there is no protection for students despite all the soldiers,’’ he said as he wept over the two corpses. He said he is withdrawing his three remaining sons from another school.
HMMMMMMMMMMMM!
Islamic militants from Boko Haram and breakaway groups have killed more than 1,600 civilians in suicide bombings and other attacks since 2010, according to an Associated Press count.
President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency May 14 and deployed thousands of troops to halt the insurgency, acknowledging that militants had taken control of some towns and villages....
Boko Haram, whose stronghold is 140 miles away in Maiduguri city, the capital of neighboring Borno state, has been behind scores of attacks on schools in the past year.
On Thursday, gunmen went to the home of a primary school headmaster and gunned down his entire family....
People from Yobe state this week appealed for the military to restore cellphone service in the area under a state of emergency, saying it could have helped avert a June 16 attack on a school that the military said killed seven students, two teachers, two soldiers, and two extremists in Damaturu, capital of Yobe state.
Oh, what a STINK!!!!! The HALLMARK of a FALSE FLAG, the REMOVAL of SECURITY!!
Residents said they had noticed suspicious movements of strangers and could have alerted soldiers and police, if their cellphones were working. Instead, the military said they were involved in a five-hour shoot-out before the militants fled.
A day later, June 17, extremists fired on students sitting at their desks as they were writing exams in Maiduguri, killing at least nine pupils.
Borno state officials say more than 20,000 people have fled to Cameroon in recent weeks amid the violence.
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Also see: Kerry Nags Nigeria
