“News on the attack was slow to emerge after insurgents destroyed nearby telecom towers, shutting down communications in the area.” If the jihadists prevail and take political power in the area, who will rebuild the infrastructure? The Saudis? The UAE? Iran? Or will the whole area descend to the level of savagery and barbarism upon which the jihadists already operate?
“Nigeria Islamists kill 17 in market attack,” from AAP, March 22 (thanks to Twostellas):
At least 17 people have been killed by an explosion in a village market in northeast Nigeria in an attack blamed on Boko Haram Islamists, a local police chief said on Sunday.
The deadly blast struck a busy marketplace late on Thursday in the remote village of Nguro-Soye, Borno state, injuring many more, said police chief Lawan Tanko.
News on the attack was slow to emerge after insurgents destroyed nearby telecom towers, shutting down communications in the area.
“An explosion in the market in Nguro-Soye killed 17 people,” Tanko told AFP, adding that police were investigating the source of the explosion.
“The attack on Nguro-Soye, as in previous attacks, is the handiwork of Boko Haram insurgents.”
Residents who fled the village to the state capital Maiduguri put the death toll at nearly 30, and said more people were hurt.
“They (attackers) fired RPG (rocket-propelled grenade) on the market and opened fire, killing 29 people,” said local trader Hamisu Ibrahim.
“Many people were injured in the attack and the stampede that followed,” said Ibrahim.
Nguro-Soye lies close to the town of Bama where 60 people were killed last month in coordinated bomb and gun attacks by Boko Haram that burnt half the town.
Deadly attacks blamed on the sect have intensified since the turn of the year, making it one of the bloodiest since the insurgency began in 2009.
So far in 2014 some 700 people have been killed in more than 40 incidents, according to Human Rights Watch.
mortimer says
Without substantial support from the Muslim population of northern Nigeria, the terrorists could not continue. Without drug money and weapons shipped across the Sahara from Iran, the terrorists could not fight.
The tiny, minority of extremists is actually the majority of normative believers in jihad. Warfare against the disbelievers is normative Islam, rather than an aberration. It will continue until Islam is disbelieved. The ‘underpants bomber’ from Nigeria was, btw, former president of the Muslim student association at his UNIVERSITY. This example reveals which Nigerian Muslims and how deeply they are drawn into JIHAD.
Jay Boo says
Just a few days ago NPR reported that the problem with Nigeria is lack of jobs. No mention of terrorism or Islam.
duh_swami says
Insurgents? I’m glad to hear it was not ‘radicals’ who misunderstood something.
It’s bad enough that many people are murdered by people who completely understand why they are doing it, without adding to the body count by misunderstanders.
Paleologos says
aaaahhhhhhhhhhh ….
So, what would president Paleologos do?
Well, unlike our pos muslim POTUS, I would have understood that “insurgent” … hate that term of mollification … Boko Haram Islamists are just another muslim death cult bunch of chicken shit murderers (masks) that need to be exterminated, like termites in your home.
Sooooooooooo, I would already have had operatives on the ground in Nigeria to hunt the guilty parties down. After a reasonable time, and after at least a few had been identified, I would start making them disappear, with extreme prejudice.
… then I would move the New York Football Giants out of New Jersey and fats Christieland, back to New York.
… then I would pick up the phone, and call Pope Frances, and say, “Yo! Frances, enough with the South America travel plans, already, when are you coming to Yankee Stadium?”
Oh well,
R/
Paleologos
Veracious_one says
as often is the case the intrepid Muslim jihadis attack and kill innocent civilians…
Ayatrollah says
I heard a news piece on NPR. It made it sound like Muslims and christains are equally culpable for what it going on here. One Muslim leader It was said had his hand cut off fighting Christians. Muslims without hands and fingers means they were playing with bombs usually.
tpellow says
Latest massacre in Nigeria.
Spelling it out clearly for MSM on the backdrop behind the Muslim murderers:
‘ISLAMIC JIHAD.’
tpellow says
Supplementary report.
“Suspected Islamists kill 20 in market bomb in northeast Nigeria”
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/03/23/uk-nigeria-violence-idUKBREA2M0CR20140323?rpc=401&feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews&rpc=401