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Nigeria: Jihad-martyrdom suicide bombers murder 15 in oil field attack

Apr 5, 2014 7:00 am By Robert Spencer

boko-haramClearly the Nigerian government has lost control of the situation. It can’t stop Boko Haram, whose real name is the Party of the People of the Sunnah for Dawah and Jihad. They can do whatever they wish. And it is doubtful that their victims will get much help from outside Nigeria, as the international community would be afraid of appearing to be “Islamophobic.”

“Islamist suicide bombers kill 15 in oil field attack in Nigeria,” from Independent.ie, April 2:

SUSPECTED Islamist suicide bombers killed 15 civilians in a failed attack on a state oil company facility in northeast Nigeria, when soldiers at a checkpoint opened fire on their explosive-packed vehicles, the military said today.

Seventeen civilians and five soldiers were wounded by the blasts on Tuesday which also destroyed eight vehicles, Defence Ministry spokesman Chris Olukolade said.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility.

Olukolade said the bombers, believed to be from militant group Boko Haram, were driving towards the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation facility at Mule. Four bombers died.

Mule is on the outskirts of Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state and the cradle of the Islamist insurgency.

“Three of the four explosive-laden vehicles were demobilised by shots fired at them by soldiers at the checkpoint, shortly before the explosions that rocked the area,” Olukolade said.

“A total of 15 civilians including a member of a youth vigilante group died,” he said.

Violence in Borno state is worse than at any time during its 4-1/2-year-old insurgency, residents say.

Enraged Boko Haram militants, fighting for an Islamic state in Nigeria, have in the past year broadened their range of targets beyond security forces, government officials and Christians to include school children and other civilians, sometimes massacring whole villages and abducting girls.

A military crackdown since last May has failed to rout the insurgency, which remains the leading security threat to Africa’s top oil producer and a serious headache for President Goodluck Jonathan ahead of February 2015 elections.

The militants’ use of explosive devices is on the rise again. Suspected Islamists drove a car packed with explosives into a police patrol in Maiduguri a week ago. They also bombed a crowded marketplace on March 27 near the town of Bama.

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  1. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Apr 5, 2014 at 7:07 am

    Remember, Boko Haram, aka the Party of the People of the Sunnah for Dawah and Jihad, flourishes only because the population agrees with them and tacitly supports them. The Moslem population that is; for their part the Christians and pagans are on their own so they’re keeping their mouths shut. As they say, you get what you pray for.

  2. Jay Boo says

    Apr 5, 2014 at 7:07 am

    Muslims
    Take a bow.
    Take a bow.
    Bow your heads in shame.
    Islam is slowly dying on the world-stage.
    Islam is about crude conflict because it has no meaningful plot.
    Go ahead and howl and wail “Allahhu akbar” at the moon.
    The world bears witness to the disgrace inflicted by Islam’s sordid clichéd goons.
    Allahhu akbars, Butcher Knives and Man-dress costumes won’t save Islam.
    Even Islam’s sycophants are ashamed of you.
    Muslims take a well-deserved deep humiliating bow.
    Feel Islam’s emptiness trying to wash itself clean.
    The final curtain is closing-in even as Islam’s deluded performers preen.

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