2,000 feared killed in 'deadliest' Boko Haram attack in Nigeria

cnn.com ^ | January 10, 2015 | Abubakar and Faith Karimi

[Berlin_Freeper]

Boko Haram militants opened fire on northern Nigerian villages, leaving bodies scattered everywhere and as many as 2,000 people feared dead, officials said.

[angcat]

I have a friend who is heading to Nigeria to work on the gas line. Is he crazy?

[nuconvert]

Nigerian states that implement some form of sharia law (in green)

The country is 50% Christian who mostly live in the white shaded areas. Maiduguri is in the top right (northeastern green section) of the country

[SES1066]

In the references made to this and the Paris attacks, there has been mentions of past atrocities but I find one curiously missing in spite of its relatively recent vintage and terror intent.

On November 26th, 2008, 10 well-trained and indoctrinated men of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), an Islamic Jihad Terror organization, carried out a 4-day targeted attack on the Indian city of Mumbai. Intended from the start to be a suicide ending, they infiltrated the city from the sea, with 4 main, high profile targets (hotels and markets) added the local Jewish cultural center and killed 164 and wounded 300+ INNOCENT non-Muslims. They deliberately asked potential victims to recite phrases from the Koran and killed the ones who could not.

Throughout the attack, intercepted satellite phone calls had their mission commanders in Pakistan during them on to do more killing and more destruction in the name of ISLAM! It was later revealed that many of the victims showed signs of torture on their bodies. In spite of maximum pressure, Pakistan has done very little to bring the LeT leaders and trainers to justice.

[nuconvert]

Depends on where in Nigeria he’s going.
Look at the map in my post #22

[I want the USA back]

The murderers have something in common with the Charlie murderers. And the 9/11 killers. And the Boston Marathon. And London train station. Madrid train station. Mumbai. etc etc.

[angcat]

I will find out...thx

[TexasCajun]

#WhatBlackLives

[nuconvert]

The northern tip of Cameroon abuts this area of Nigeria where this took place

[tflabo]

Allah the moon god sure likes a lot of blood drink to satisfy his lust for power.

[nuconvert]

btw - there are also pirates off the southern coast

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

According to Mark Levin, this happened about five days ago. I wonder why it took so long for CNN to report this?

[Gen.Blather]

“I have a friend who is heading to Nigeria to work on the gas line. Is he crazy?”

For a while, in my take-any-job phase, I investigated jobs in many Muslim countries. In all the ones I researched non-Muslims are forbidden to own, possess, or carry weapons of any type on pain, variously, of imprisonment, whipping, and death. On investigating why, it’s because Islam considers non-Islamic people a species of property. The typical American isn’t actually treated that way as, in almost all cases, the work would not get done and the work is critical to the various governments. But, if things go badly, you’re out of luck. There is no law to protect you.

[Born to Conserve]

I looked around. I couldn’t find any videos of Boko Haram members being publicly executed.

What are people waiting for, magic?

[KarlInOhio]

Hey, CNN, what's with the quotes around 'deadliest'? Is it meant in some type of ironic way? Is it a term you disagree with like when I say political "ethics"? Is it a special term of art which might not mean what someone outside the specialty might misunderstand?

How about a straight headline?

2,000 feared killed in deadliest Boko Haram attack in Nigeria

There, no irony, no doubt as to what deadliest means.

[Savage Beast]

When will the World Leaders’ Rally and the Candle-light Vigils begin? I don’t want to miss them.

[pieceofthepuzzle]

Thanks, I’ll look for this documentary. We should all watch it.

[kearnyirish2]

You’re welcome.

A couple of years ago I watched one on the Mumbai attack; it was even more creepy because while it was narrated, they also played recordings (I guess gathered by Indian intelligence) of the handlers directing the attack. The jihadists themselves weren’t very sophisticated (they were overwhelmed by the large shop windows and such), and it described their movements fairly thoroughly.

The biggest disgrace in Kenya (that definitely contributed to a higher death toll) was that the government waited about three hours before sending anyone in. A small group of plainclothes policemen went in on their own earlier (and helped rescue some people), then some of them were shot (and one of them was killed) by the troops/SWAT as they moved in later.

[ArcadeQuarters]

I hope no one is upset about these 2,000 murders because that would be offensive to Muslims.