Posted on 11/05/2011 12:36:01 PM PDT by Hunton Peck
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Residents fearfully left their homes Saturday to bury their dead in northeast Nigeria following a series of coordinated attacks that killed at least 67 people and left a new police headquarters in ruins, government offices burned and symbols of state power destroyed.
A radical Muslim sect known locally as Boko Haram claimed responsibility for the attacks in Borno and Yobe states, with the worst damage done in and around the city of Damaturu. The group also promised to continue its bloody sectarian fight against Nigeria's weak central government, with residents nervously moving through empty streets, waiting for the next attack.
"There's that fear that something might possibly happen again," Nigerian Red Cross official Ibrahim Bulama said.
In Damaturu, the capital of Yobe state, a car bomb exploded Friday afternoon outside a three-story building used as a military office and barracks, killing many uniformed security agents, Bulama said.
Gunmen then went through the town, blowing up a bank and attacking at least three police stations and some churches, leaving them in rubble, he said. Gunfire continued through the night and gunmen raided the village of Potiskum near the capital as well, witnesses said, leaving at least two people dead there.
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Boko Haram wants to implement strict Shariah law across Nigeria, an oil-rich nation of more than 160 million which has a predominantly Christian south and a Muslim north. Its name means "Western education is sacrilige" in the local Hausa language, but instead of schooling, it rejects Western ideals like Nigeria's U.S.-styled democracy that followers believe have destroyed the country with corrupt politicians.
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An AP count shows the group has killed at least 327 people this year alone.
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The religion of peace.Not. We should all only post “The Religion of Murder”, whenever “islam” is mentioned, anywhere.
Another ‘peaceful’ attack
AFP is now reporting a death toll of up to 150.
Isn't there a rock band by that name?
There is no such thing as radical Islam. There is only Islam and those who belong who have not killed yet.
Greatest hit: A Redder Shade of Infidel Blood.
..... What the Islamist radicals are failing to consider is the violent and inevitable backlash to come.
The poor slaughtered had no resort to arms for their defense. Can you imagine what would happen in America with full Democrat/communist gun control?
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