It was predictable enough. Needless to say, this attack is a major escalation for Boko Haram, and the stability of the country depends on the strength of Abuja's response. "Abuja attack: Car bomb hits Nigeria UN building," from BBC News, August 26:
At least 18 people have been killed in an apparent suicide car bombing at the United Nations headquarters in the Nigerian capital, Abuja.
The powerful blast destroyed the lower floors of the building. Dozens have been injured, some critically.
A spokesman for the Islamist group Boko Haram told the BBC in a phone call that it had carried out the attack.
If "Western Education is Sin" (a rough translation of the group's name), where does he suppose phones come from?
UN chief Ban Ki-moon said the attack was "an assault on those who devote their lives to helping others".
The UN was an inevitable target, due in part to its high visibility. Above all, Boko Haram consistently targets institutions and practices that could stand in the way of its intentions to impose Sharia.
Speaking before Boko Haram's statement, President Goodluck Jonathan reaffirmed his government's "total commitment" to combating terrorism, and said his administration would "spare no effort to bring the perpetrators to justice".
In Friday morning's attack, a car crashed through two security barriers and rammed into the building's reception before exploding, witnesses said.
Hospitals are said to be overwhelmed by the number of injured and have appealed for blood donations.
Boko Haram, which is fighting for the establishment of Sharia law in Nigeria, also said it carried out a car bombing at police headquarters in June.
A UN official in Nigeria, who spoke to the BBC on condition of anonymity, said the UN had stepped up security at all its buildings in Nigeria in the past month after receiving information that the UN could be targeted by Boko Haram.
Analysts say that the scale and target of the attack could point to a link with international terror groups.
(….A spokesman for the Islamist group Boko Haram told the BBC in a phone call that it had carried out the attack).
Special thanks to BBC for having lead the crusade of Hausa and Islamic language promotion in Nigeria since early 70s.
Yes! BBC, through Hausa programs and News casts, allowed Muslims in Nigeria to preach and make daily commentaries that are detrimental to bilateral co-existence in Nigeria society.
For those that do not know, Hausa is an Islamic language that is an off-shoot of Arabic language.
It is from this same Hausa language that the words "Boko Haram" emerged.
Well, from these BBC programs Muslims across Nigeria and else-where, shared international ideologies with Middle east radical Islam. From the same linguistic advancement and care taking, Muslims in Nigeria became well aligned and finally today have qualified as Talibans.
When some of us blame the Main stream media for the decay, spreading from Islam; we know about what we are talking
BBC – carry go!
Just don't debate Islam, Koran or Mohammed; or even Muslims and atrocities in your programs - and your news will continue to sell.
Why worry? The radicals already have your phone numbers to always contact you when-ever and where-ever your eggs hatch.
The BBC is one of the world's major facilitators of jihad in all its forms. I suspect its management may have been 'influenced' by OIC petrodollars and invitations to exclusive bacha bazi parties. There is no other explanation for its blatant bias and continuous da'wa: http://crombouke.blogspot.com/2010/01/bbc-appeasement-self-loathing.html
Arab Spring Turns Into Sharia Winter
The cult of the pedophile-terrorist strikes again. If there's one thing you can say about muslims is that they are consistent, no matter what country they're in, they start acting like savages and barbarians once their population gets big enough.
And while they're busy blowing shit up, kidnapping non-muslim girls and forcibly converting them to Islam, bullying/terrorizing us into caving to their demands, they're also working just as hard on our unfortunate affliction of 'Islamophobia' which is the hate, anger, disgust that one naturally feels when we see a group of people acting like savages and psychopathic monsters.
I've seen enough of what they can do and the problem multiplies ten-fold when their population increases to 10-20% or more. I've read the history books, I know what's coming if us infidels don't organize soon and work to defeat Islam in the West.
Things are going to get very, very ugly and there will be a lot of needless suffering of good, innocent people-it's already happening in Europe-it's the elephant in the room nobody dares speak about.
This is a bigger problem than Nazism and we still can't even name it openly in public without some brain-dead leftist wanting to get you jailed (or be seen as a Nazi) for speaking the truth and behind him, a vast barbarian horde of muslims ready to tear you apart for calling a spade a spade.
There will soon come a point where democratic means will be useless to stop them, like it is for Iran and it's nuclear weapons program and more drastic measures will be required to defend our freedom.
'Boko Haram', a few loose translations:
Illiteracy is Sunna!; Mo couldn't write, so why should we?; It's obligatory to be as thick as two short planks.; Being backward is going forward; Caliphate Clowns can't cpell!
Add your own loose translations, folks!
Books, him bad.
Not mine, but I like it. I don't remember who posted it.
Looks like these people really do live up to their name and think books are haram; otherwise they would not have bombed one of their best allies :-/
"If "Western Education is Sin" (a rough translation of the group's name), where does he suppose phones come from?"
It's a quranic miracle !!!!!!!
Roland Shirk. I like it too.