A truly horrendous attack by the Muslim terrorist group.
A coordinated attack by a radical Islamist sect in north Nigeria’s largest city killed at least 143 people, a hospital official said Saturday, representing the extremist group’s deadliest assault since beginning its campaign of terror in Africa’s most populous nation.
Soldiers and police officers swarmed Kano’s streets as Nigeria’s president again promised the sect known as Boko Haram would “face the full wrath of the law.” But the uniformed bodies of security agents that filled a Kano hospital mortuary again showed the sect can strike at will against the country’s weak central government.
Friday’s attacks hit police stations, immigration offices and the local headquarters of Nigeria’s secret police in Kano, a city of more than 9 million people that remains an important political and religious center in the country’s Muslim north. A suicide bomber detonated a car loaded with powerful explosives outside a regional police headquarters, tearing its roof away and blowing out windows in a blast felt miles away as its members escaped jail cells there.
Authorities largely refused to offer casualty statistics as mourners began claiming the bodies of their loved ones to bury before sundown, following Islamic tradition. However, a hospital official told The Associated Press at least 143 people were killed in the attack.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to release the death toll to journalists. The toll could still rise, since other bodies could be held at other clinics and hospitals in the sprawling city.
The targeted buildings were all government facilities. Previously, Boko Haram went after Christians, most notably, their Christmas Day attacks on churches in southern Nigeria.
Nigeria has long been on my list as the next African country that will completely fall apart – mostly under its own weight. It just has too many people.
Wonder if the Ron Paul crowd thinks this one is America’s fault too.
Just like terrorists to kill their fellow Muslims.
Anyone who thinks they are protesting against “oppression” or whatever the reason they want to give is ignorant or stupid. These are bloodthirsty people.
And it’s not like Muslims haven’t been committing violent acts against Christians for a long time in Northern Nigeria. It’s just that now, these terrorists are willing to die themselves while they commit mass murder, which is something new. And they, like Islamic terrorists worldwide, don’t care whether they kill fellow Muslims. These people just need to be wiped out (Boko Haram, that is).
John Byter, there are lots of other African countries that are in a worse state. Nigeria has had lots and lots of people for a long time, and we’ve survived.
The UN, EU, OIC, World Council of Churches and the Obama administration to condemn the Zionists for this crime in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1……
Africa. Let it go.
One day it’s the Islamists. Another day it’s the Animists.
Let it go. Cut all aid. Bring home all advisors. Give up.
It’s gone anyway.
But keep sending the missionaries. More missionaries is the only thing that can help Africa.
If the missionaries want to go and on their own money and I can not convince them otherwise, so be it. I still say the entire continent is hopeless and should be cut loose.
Do we have any based in Nigeria? Do we have any troops occupying Nigeria? No. Will Ron Paul, the Libertarians, Obama, and the Liberals, blame us for these attacks? Yes.