KANO, Nigeria--Coordinated attacks claimed by a radical Islamist sect killed at least 120 people in north Nigeria's largest city, hospital records seen Saturday show, as gunfire still echoed around some areas of the sprawling city.
Soldiers and police officers swarmed over streets Saturday in Kano, a city of more than 9 million people that remains an important political and religious hub in Nigeria's Muslim north. But their effectiveness remains in question, as the uniformed bodies of many of their colleagues lay in the overflowing mortuary of Murtala Muhammed Specialist Hospital, Kano's largest hospital.
Hospital records seen by an Associated Press reporter there showed at least 120 people died in the attacks that started Friday afternoon after Muslim prayers and as shops closed for the weekend in the sprawling, dusty city. A mortuary attendant, who spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to speak with journalists, said they had 126 bodies there. . . .
A Boko Haram spokesman using the nom de guerre Abul-Qaqa claimed responsibility for the attacks in a message to journalists. He said the attack came as the state government refused to release Boko Haram members held by the police.
Boko Haram has carried out increasingly sophisticated and bloody attacks in its campaign to implement strict Shariah law across Nigeria, a multiethnic nation of more than 160 million people.
Boko Haram, whose name means "Western education is sacrilege" in the local Hausa language, is responsible for at least 510 killings last year alone, according to an AP count. So far this year, the group has been blamed for at least 196 killings, according to an AP count. (Read more.)
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Muslim Group Boko Haram Kills More Than 120 People in Nigeria
Hmmm. Boko Haram is killing people in their efforts to establish Sharia. Here in America, when leaders attempt to make laws against establishing Sharia, Muslims assure us that they have no desire to establish Sharia, and that Sharia is simply a set of personal Islamic duties such as praying and visiting a mosque. Ever get the feeling someone's not being honest?
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Did anybody hear of any Muslim Delegation heading to Nigeria to talk to those "Bokoan" ? ...
To tell them that what they doing is against the teaching of Mohammed! ...
Boko Haram =
People Committed to the Propagation of the Prophet's Teachings and Jihad
جماعة أهل السنة للدعوة والجهاد
John 16:33 "These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world."
May God strengthen our brothers and sisters in Nigeria and bless them more and more ...
The religion of peace strikes again. My ancestral home. Tsk, tsk, tsk.
The religion of peace. The only thing that is going to wake up America is if they strike again. Another 9/11. Then progress will be made against this tribal religion that is funded in hate, aggression, and murder.
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