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Why Terrorists Kill


October 3, 2013 by IndepthAfrica
  The Westgate attack in Kenya with its accompanying butchery of every man, woman and child in a shopping mall who couldn’t name Mohammed’s mother is being met with baffled mutterings about “senseless violence.”   But there’s nothing senseless about …read more »
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Nigeria: Where Jihad and Christian Persecution Run Rampant


October 3, 2013 by IndepthAfrica
Many around the world were recently made aware—got a small glimpse—of the Islamic jihad that plagues northern Nigeria, at the hands of Boko Haram, an organization dedicated to eradicating Christianity and enforcing the totality of Sharia law. Last Sunday, September …read more »
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Nigeria military: At least 11 killed in new attack


April 25, 2013 by IndepthAfrica
AP MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — Authorties in Nigeria say at least 11 people have been killed in violence blamed on Islamic insurgents in the country’s northeast. One attack happened Wednesday night in the fishing village of Gashua in Yobe state. Teacher …read more »
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Eleven Killed in Attack on Home of Nigerian Deputy Governor


April 6, 2013 by IndepthAfrica
Police in Nigeria’s Adamawa state say attackers stormed the home of the state’s deputy governor in Midlu Saturday, killing 11 people. Some victims were shot, while others had their throats cut. Police have given few details, but say it appears …read more »
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US: Islamic extremists moving freely between Nigeria, Mali, raising terror attack fears


March 14, 2013 by IndepthAfrica
LAGOS, Nigeria — Islamic extremists continue to move freely between Nigeria and northern Mali, despite the ongoing French military operation there against them, the United States ambassador to Nigeria said Thursday. As extremist shootings, bombings and kidnappings of foreigners continue …read more »
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Boko Haram leader denies dialogue with Nigerian Government


March 3, 2013 by IndepthAfrica
Latest video released by Boko Haram says the group is not having any dialogue with Nigerian government. The group described as fraud and lies, the dialogue said to be on- going between government and Imam Abdulazeez who claims to be …read more »
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Somali journalist shot dead; 1st this year


January 18, 2013 by IndepthAfrica
Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia — Unknown gunmen shot dead a Somali radio producer on Friday, the first journalist to be killed this year, an editor with his Somali radio station said. Eighteen journalists were killed last year, making Somalia one …read more »
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Nigeria’s Boko Haram problem


January 11, 2013 by IndepthAfrica
It is not known if the word dysfunctional was invented specifically to describe the Nigerian state — several other candidates also come to mind — but the word certainly fills the bill. The political institutions of Africa’s biggest country are …read more »
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Nigeria: Boko Haram slit christians’ throats in Maiduguri


December 31, 2012 by IndepthAfrica
Maiduguri – Suspected Islamist extremists have killed 15 Christians by slitting their throats in an attack on a village in Maiduguri , residents and a relief source said on Sunday. “From the information we gathered, the attackers broke into selected …read more »
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Nigeria offers $1.8 M reward for capture of Boko Haram leaders


November 24, 2012 by IndepthAfrica
KANO, Nigeria — Nigeria’s military on Friday offered hundreds of thousands of dollars in rewards for information leading to the capture of leaders of Islamist extremist group Boko Haram. A statement listed 19 alleged senior members of the extremist group …read more »
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Nigeria city of Maiduguri ‘shaken by blasts’


October 15, 2012 by IndepthAfrica
Loud explosions and gunfire have rocked Nigeria’s northern city of Maiduguri, which has seen growing violence by the militant Islamist group Boko Haram. Details are unclear, but reports said at least 10 people had been killed, including several soldiers. A …read more »
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The Film ‘Innocence of Muslims’ — Made By Terrorists?


September 27, 2012 by IndepthAfrica
by Walid Shoebat When it comes to the film Innocence of Muslims, our government and the media use a narrative mired in contradictions and false statements provided by the filmmaker, who himself is an untrustworthy source. If we stick to what …read more »
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Nigeria: Pervasive Abuses, Corruption, and Impunity Should Top Clinton’s Agenda


August 7, 2012 by IndepthAfrica
(Washington, DC) – US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on her trip to Nigeria should encourage President Goodluck Jonathan to address increasingly deadly violence in northern and central Nigeria, Human Rights Watch said in a letter to Clinton on August …read more »
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Gunmen Kill 15 Worshippers in Attack on Nigerian Church | Get ...

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Nigerian officials say an unknown number of gunmen stormed the church late Monday near Okene in Kogi state. Kogi state is in Nigeria's middle belt

Gunmen Kill 15 in Latest Nigerian Church Attack


August 7, 2012 by IndepthAfrica
Gunmen have opened fire on worshippers during a church service in central Nigeria, killing at least 15 people. Nigerian officials say an unknown number of gunmen stormed the church late Monday near Okene in Kogi state. Kogi state is in …read more »
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Bombers Attack Center in Christian Area of Jos, Nigeria


April 25, 2012 by IndepthAfrica
One person was killed and nine others were injured last night after suspected Islamic extremists attacked a TV viewing center in a Christian area of Jos where a crowd had gathered to watch soccer. At about 10:15 p.m. at the …read more »
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Terror for Passover


March 27, 2012 by IndepthAfrica
It’s only a few weeks until Passover, a holiday that Jews throughout the world will be celebrating. And throughout the world, Muslims appear to be doing their part to help in the celebrations. In Milan, home of 
trendy fashions, 
 In Milan, home of trendy fashions, a Moroccan Muslim man was arrested for organizing a bomb plot against a synagogue. Mohamed Jarmoune, a namesake of the prophet, had set up a covert Facebook group which included American and British Muslims to crowdsource the terror using social media.
Over in London, a Muslim woman was arrested for involvement in the same plot. Meanwhile in New York, the trial of two Muslim men accused of plotting to blow up synagogues continues. The two men, Ahmed Ferhani and another Mohamed, Mohamed Mamdouh, had contemplated dressing up as Hassidic Jews and walking inside with a hand grenade and a gun. But in all fairness, Ahmed and Mohamed hadn’t limited their homicidal interfaith fantasies to synagogues; they also considered blowing up churches.
After briefly flirting with becoming a model, Ahmed Ferhani had announced that he wanted to become a martyr instead, and in court his lawyer was doing her best to make him one. Ferhani’s lawyer, the appropriately named Elizabeth Fink, told the court that her client was just an innocent mentally ill violent ex-con who had been set up by the Islamophobic cretins at the NYPD.
Fink, who presents herself as a civil rights attorney and has an article on her website titled, “Attica is All of Us” seemed to be doing her best to exhaust the patience of even a liberal New York judge. When she began comparing the surveillance of Muslim terror suspects to the detention of Japanese-Americans, Judge Obus sighed and foreseeing a closing argument consisting entirely of Fink reading from “A People’s History of the United States”, said, “This could be a long trial.”
 “What’s happening in the city of New York is evil, judge. It is wrong, and this case will expose it.”
Fink, like all finks, didn’t mean that blowing up synagogues was evil; she meant that arresting people who want to blow up synagogues is evil. There are of course plenty of finks out there. Some of them argue cases before the bench while others sit comfortably on the bench.
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Blasts target sect critics in Nigeria


August 1, 2011 by benim
Jos – A group critical of feared Islamic militants says weekend blasts targeted their leaders in a tense central Nigerian city. The spokesperson of a sect known as Izala said on Monday that a bomb went off on Saturday night …read more »
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Nigeria army claims 11 Boko Haram deaths in Maiduguri


July 10, 2011 by benim
The Nigerian army says it has killed 11 Islamic militants in the troubled north-eastern city of Maiduguri. An army patrol had come under attack from Boko Haram fighters, who want to establish an Islamic state in the north, said an …read more »
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Army hunts northern Nigeria bombers


June 28, 2011 by benim
Security forces tightened their grip on restive northern Nigeria Tuesday as they hunted for the perpetrators of a spate of bombings that has left at least 30 people dead in just two days, including two girls. In the latest attack, …read more »
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Nigeria president visits site of first suicide blast


June 17, 2011 by benim
  President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday visited the site of Nigeria’s first suicide blast, claimed by Islamists, assuring that security forces were tackling the “ugly” emergence of terror attacks.   The radical Boko Haram sect said it was behind Thursday’s …read more »
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7 Algerian soldiers, 3 ‘terrorists’ killed: report


May 13, 2011 by benim
An attack on a military barracks in northeast Algeria claimed the lives of seven soldiers and three “terrorists” overnight, the El-Watan daily reported online on Friday. An eighth soldier was missing after the machine gun attack on military sleeping quarters …read more »
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Ethiopia PM blames Muslim sect over church attacks


March 13, 2011 by benim
Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi blamed a little-known local Muslim group of preaching religious intolerance in an area where Christian churches were burnt last week, killing one person. Authorities have said up to 50 churches have been burnt and around …
Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi blamed a little-known local Muslim group of preaching religious intolerance in an area where Christian churches were burnt last week, killing one person.
Authorities have said up to 50 churches have been burnt and around 3,000 Christians displaced since March 2 when Muslim youths attacked the community around Asendabo, some 360 km (215 miles) west of the capital Addis Ababa.
The U.S.-based International Christian Concern said youths had accused Christians of desecrating the Koran.
The group, which says it aims to fight the persecution of Christians, accused local security officials of doing nothing to stop the attacks.
Meles told a news conference late on Saturday that “elements of the Kawarja sect and other extremists” had been preaching religious intolerance in the area.
“The government has been trying to stop the violence. That has been done quite successfully in spite of the property damage and the death of one Ethiopian,” he said.
International Christian Concern said Kawarja, about whom little is known, aimed to set up an Islamic state in mainly Christian Ethiopia, where Muslims make up a quarter of the population.
More than a dozen members of Ethiopia’s Pentecostal church were killed in the same area in 2006 in similar attacks over desecration charges.
Meles said it was hard to prosecute Islamic extremists.
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Algeria braces for second pro-democracy rally


February 19, 2011 by benim
Pro-democracy protesters in Algeria vowed to hold a march Saturday even though thousands of police blocked their path a week ago. The new march comes amid weeks of strikes and scattered protests in the North African country, which has promised …read more »
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Italian tourist abducted in desert


February 4, 2011 by benim
Algiers – The Algerian APS news agency said on Friday that an Italian tourist had been abducted by suspected Islamic militants in the North African country’s remote southern desert. The woman had been heading towards the southern town of Alidena …read more »
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Nigeria Bomb Blasts Linked to Al-Qaeda


January 7, 2011 by benim
It has been revealed after all that the recent bomb blast in the Nigerian capital Abuja on the New Year’s Eve that killed and maimed scores of people was financed, planned, and executed by the Al-Qaeda – the Islamic terrorist …read more »
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Egypt on alert as Copts gather for Christmas Eve


January 6, 2011 by benim
One device containing nails and fireworks was found in a church staircase in the southern city of Minya but it had no detonator and one security official told Associated Press it may have been placed there to test security. Egyptian …read more »
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Egypt’s Christians fear new attack on Coptic Christmas Eve


January 5, 2011 by benim
CAIRO – Egyptian Christians say they fear a repeat attack against their community on Coptic Christmas Eve Thursday despite authorities planning heavy security following a New Year’s suicide bombing of a church in Alexandria that killed 21. In response to …read more »
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Egypt: Bomber planned blast in church – cops


January 4, 2011 by benim
Cairo – A suspected suicide bomber who killed 21 people – two more have died in hospital – outside a church probably intended to set off the explosives inside so as to kill as many people as possible, Egyptian investigators …read more »
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