Nigeria: Boko Haram jihadists suspected in attack on police headquarters in nation's capital

Escalation: Boko Haram has ventured again out of the region it usually terrorizes to attack a target of supreme symbolic value, the headquarters for law enforcement, in the capital city for Nigeria's non-Sharia government. "Abuja 'bomber' hits Nigeria police headquarters," from BBC News, June 16:

An eyewitness to the blast told the BBC everybody was scared after the bomb exploded.

Bombs will do that. That was the subheading between the headline and the main article, which follows below.

Two people, including a bomber, have died in an explosion at Nigeria's police headquarters in the capital, Abuja, the police say.
Police spokesman Olusola Amore said Islamist group Boko Haram was suspected of being behind the attack.
The blast in the car park of the police base destroyed many vehicles and a large plume of smoke could be seen rising from the scene.
A Red Cross spokesman told the BBC that another four bodies had been recovered.
"Six to be precise. Six bodies from the explosion," Nigerian Red Cross official Taiye Olaniyi told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme, adding that many of them had been "very badly mutilated"
Seven other people were wounded in the explosion, five of whom were being treated in hospital, the Red Cross said.
The BBC's Jonah Fisher in Lagos says that, for the Nigerian authorities, the attack is an embarrassing strike at the very heart of their security establishment.
In the last few weeks, Boko Haram, which usually operates in the north-eastern city of Maiduguri, has been stepping up its attacks on security targets.

Boko Haram's attacks have focused on un-Islamic practices -- drinking, charging interest, belonging to non-Islamic religions -- or symbols and representatives of Nigeria's government and law enforcement.

The group said it was behind a series of bombings in the capital that took place hours after President Goodluck Jonathan's inauguration last month.
On Tuesday, Nigeria's police chief promised to decisively deal with the group by sending more troops and equipment to the north, declaring they would be finished within a few months....

And Boko Haram promised to wage an intensified jihad against the infidels who had the unmitigated gall to fight back.

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Time to partition Nigeria before more people die! Muslims -you can't live with them,...it's just you can't live with them.

It would be interesting to look further into the etiology of the word "boko". In Haitien voudoun (voodoo), which of course has partially African origins, a "bokor" is a sorceror, a black magician. Might the use of "boko" in the name Boko Haram, meaning "Western education bad, Islamic stagnation good" (loose translation!) indicate that Western education and science is seen as "sorcery"?

Sort of makes one wonder if it might be fun to try sending some voodoo curses to imams and see what happens...

Magic is doctrinally sound in Islam, whether the average bear believes in it or not is of course up to the individual. But what about cultural stagnation would not lead to undue belief in magical influence by people?

I thought that "boko" was the local creole for "books", with "books" meaning (Western) education in general

"Nigeria's police chief promised to decisively deal with the group by sending more troops and equipment to the north, declaring they would be finished within a few months...."

If he really expects to be finished within a few months, I expect his "decisive dealing" to amount to a few dozen shootings of likely suspects, the arrest of a few hundred more, and the bland statement of "mission accomplished". Which would leave the whole business to crop out again next year.
To truly deal decisively with the BH would involve a level of fatalities that I doubt either Nigerian authorities or world leaders would allow.

Thank you, Robert for that there unmittergated gall (rimes with ball, as in he's got some) to stand against and DARE to fight back! Mega Kudos, Big Guy!

One must assume the reason we're actively recruiting all these Nigerian Moslems to legally immigrate to America is to relieve the pressure cooker over in that blighted hell-hole of a country.

*** 33:21 ***

But apparently that plan isn't working. We should reconsider all the $$$ we're spending on immigrant paperwork, AFDC, SBA, Affirmative Action preferential hiring, free healthcare, and HUD Section 8 free or subsidized housing is not money well spent.

So, like any for profit bidness, the spending (and legal immigration from there) should stop immediately.

I loved Ronald Shirks translation: 'Books - him bad.'

But your idea rocks ! Nigerians, on the whole, believe in witchcraft - they call it 'ju-ju' : might just scare some of these disgusting old charlatans ...

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