Boko Haram, the Congregation of the People of the Sunnah for Dawah and Jihad, once again shows that it can operate with absolute impunity in Nigeria, without fear of any significant reaction from the Nigerian government. Since Nigerian generals have been found to have been arming the group, doubtless out of approval of its activities, it is not hard to see why.
“Nigeria: Abuja blast in Wuse district kills 21,” BBC, June 25, 2014 (thanks to Twostellas):
An explosion has struck a busy shopping district of Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, killing at least 21 people.
The explosion was in the capital’s Wuse district, near the popular Banex plaza shopping complex, and could be heard from miles away.
It is not yet clear what was behind the explosion. The military and emergency services have been sent to the area.
Islamist militant group Boko Haram has bombed targets across northern Nigeria in recent years.
“After a preliminary investigation we can confirm that 21 people were killed and 17 injured,” police spokesman Frank Mba told reporters.
‘Covered in blood’
Chiamaka Oham, who was near the site of the blast, told the BBC: “We heard a really loud noise and the building shook, and people started screaming and running out.
“We saw the smoke and people covered in blood. It was just chaos.”
Eyewitnesses at the scene described seeing body parts scattered across the area.
The area was packed with shoppers at the time of the blast, the BBC’s Hausa service editor Mansur Liman reports.
Many cars outside the shopping complex were burnt out and many windows were shattered, he adds.
One man told the BBC his driver was killed in the blast: “I was in the complex when I saw that the ground was shaking. I saw my driver dead and a lot of casualties.”
Smoke seen rising from the site of the blast, Abuja, 25 June 2014 The blast hit a busy shopping centreManzo Ezekiel, spokesman for the National Emergency Management Agency, told AFP news agency: “You can see smoke billowing from the sky. It’s a very crowded place.”
Police spokesman Frank Mba said he could not provide details of the nature or extent of the damage.
“Our most important assignment now is to secure lives, secure the crime scene and actually carry out preliminary investigations,” he added.
Boko Haram has staged previous attacks in Abuja, but most of its targets have been in the north-east of the country.
In April, more than 70 people were killed in a bomb blast at a bus stop on the outskirts of the capital in an attack claimed by Boko Haram.
The group also said it was behind a car bomb attack near a bus station in the suburbs in May, which killed at least 19 people and injured 60 others.
The group has hit Abuja several times before, including an attack on the United Nations national headquarters in 2011.
It has become a source of growing international concern since the recent abduction of more than 200 girls from a school in northern Nigeria.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Since Nigerian generals have been found to have been arming the group…
I wonder if these Nigerian generals are of the Moslem persuasion. A bedrock principle of a free society to forbid Moslems from the military, the police forces, and the clinics. Our worst case scenario is a general of a reserve military unit who’s regular job is as a police officer, a career he pursued after having so many bombing victims die in his hairy Moslem hands when he worked as a doctor at the emergency room right after medical school.
Mazo says
If you truly believe that only a Muslim General would arm terrorists you are suffering fron the same delusion as gravenmirage.
Gravenmirage is an apologist for corrupt governments like the Thai, Nigerian, and Kenyan governments, daring to attack anyone who points out that its often corrupt non-Muslim authorities and officials who aid and abet terrorists for political reasons and personal gain.
Just recently after the attack in Kenya by Al-Shabaab, the non-Muslim Kiykuyu President of Kenya, instead of blaming al Shabaab, chose to blame the Luo minority who dominate the oppostion to score political points. Note that in 2007 members of his Kikuyu ethnic group massacred Luo after disputed elections. His Kikuyu ethnic group dominates Kenya and is opposed by the Luo.
In other words, the greedy non-Muslim Kenyan President is deliberately using Al-shabaab terrorist attacks to score political points by blaming his rivals
http://blogs.ft.com/the-world/2014/06/kenyattas-political-manoeuvres-play-into-al-shabaabs-hands/
Same thing happened with Nigerian girls kidnapping by Boko Haram. Non-Muslim Nigerian President Goodluck and his wife at first expressed doubt that the girls were even kidnapped, because he did not want to admit how corrupt, incompetent and pathetic his security forces were. Only after international outrage that he started doing something about it.
In the first Chechen War, many Russian military officers were corrupt to the core. They accepted bribes from foreign mujahideen to let them cross the border into Russia, or even sold their own weapons to the Chechens and Mujahideen and accepted payments, agreeing that the Chechens or foreign Mujahideen would not attack their unit for a set period of tine, and would only attack other Russian units instead.
Russian officers often didn’t give a damn what happened to the conscripts, the officers even torture and beat their own rank and file troops.
That was one of the reasons the Russians lost the first war under Yeltsin.
In Thailand, the corrupt Thai military displays such shocking incompetence against the Pattani insurgents. The Thai military receives military aid from the United States and the Thai government allocates a large amount of its funding to the military.
The Thai military officers deliberately prolong the insurgeny and war, and hope it never ends, because they can then continued to embezzle funds and money from the funding that is earmarked for equipment and fighting. They spend the money on themselves, on their mansions and fancy sports cars.
The officers frequently don’t give a damn about the conscripts in the rank and file. If they die, it doesn’t affect them. Thailand, Nigeria, Kenya, and other third world countries are not like the western militaries.
In the Philippines, the Philippine military also receives military aid and anti terrorism money from USA and its own government. There has been a decades long Communist NPA insurgency against the Philippines government in addition to Moro insurgents.
Ask a Filipino yourself how corrupt their military is. One of them admitted to me that the officers deliberately prolong the conflict and hope it never ends, deliberately not going after insurgents to crush them but instead embezzling funds earmarked for military equipement, and putting it into their own pockets, for their own benefit and fancy sports cars and rolex watches.
Every so often the Philippine military will bag a “most wanted’ terror suspect linked to Al Qaeda, in order to continue receive anti terrorist funding from America, they actually know where these people have been hiding the whole time and carefully time their arrests, stretching out each major arrest a few years to keep the anti-terror funds flowing.
You see, if they arrested them all at once and crushed the insurgency, there would be no more money to embezzle for their own personal use.
Now gravenmirage will whine and accuse me of being an apologist for terror, because I dare point out how corrupt the Nigerian, Thai, Philippine, and Kenyan militaries and states are.
You fools have never experienced serving in non-western militaries or been to non-western countries to see how trashy and corrupt all the officials and officers are. I bet you fools think that the Philippine and Thai military are just like western militaries. Did you wonder why Thailand still has coups? The military just loves corruption and getting its hands dirty.
Jay Boo says
Mazo
Surly, you must realize what you are promoting is Obama’s worn-out standard -issue Franken-policy with Islam.
Whenever Islamic terrorist butcher innocent civilians in the name Allah Obama’s puppet MSM jumps into action and blathers on about finding a path toward greater INCLUSION with the same murderers and talk of sharing power.
Nigerian
Kenya
Chechnya
Israel
Iraq
Egypt
Syria
Myanmar
China
The list is endless.
Jay Boo says
PS
Mazo Why did you not mention Islam and its filthy vile QUR’AN in your example of corruption?
Mazo says
In the west, I hear how westerners like Americans think its an honor to serve in the military.
In non-western countries, including places like South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, and pretty much all other non-western places, young men do anything they can to avoid military service. They try every loophole and make themselves unfit for the medical examination, if they are a politician’s son then they never have to serve and are exempt, or they want to immigrate to a western country to avoid service. The officers are corrupt and enjoy beating up conscripts. Being in the military is seen as equal to being in jail.
Burt says
Daily news of murder and destruction and generally repulsive acts from the followers of the prophet.
Come on…any Muslim who happens to be equally repulsed by their co-religionists…time to face facts! Long overdue time in fact! …You happen to be born into a false and evil creed. Face facts! Be part of the solution! Reject the lies of Mohammed!
Sweetness says
Well, it looks like the Nigerean football team is going to win the world cup. They’ve been winning all their games by forfeit because no other team wants to play them since they changed their club nickname. Ya gotta admit, Boom Boom Halal is kinda catchy.
Lolo Uno says
God help us. all of us.
dumbledoresarmy says
The simple fact that a poster above – all the regulars will know whom I mean – ignores and is attempting to bamboozle newer readers into not seeing, is this – Got Muslims? – **Got Jihad**.
It wouldn’t matter *how* corrupt the militaries or other official bodies within this or that country were, if there were no Muslim Fifth Columnists inside those countries, all too ready and willing to engage in Jihad, there would be no jihad attacks.
If there were no Muslims in Nigeria, this shopping centre would not have been blown up, and those Christian schoolgirls would have taken their exams and gone home.
Furthermore, Muslims have engaged in Jihad within and against countries that are *far less* corrupt than Russia, the Philippines, Thailand, or Nigeria.
A country that is corrupt, in the usual infidel sense of the word “corrupt”, is more vulnerable to Muslim infiltration, subversion, and outright *attack*, than a country that is not. But that fact does *not* in any way absolve Muslims, animated by Islam, of the final responsibility for their actions. All it shows is that Muslims, like the cowardly opportunists that they are, gravitate toward the “soft” targets and will take instant advantage of any weaknesses that they perceive in the Camp of the Infidels.
Are Muslims, and the ideology of Islam, absolved of responsibility for the jihad ghazi raid – sponsored by suffused-with-Islam Pakistan – on Mumbai in November 2008, merely because India ranks fairly high in the “corruption” stakes?
Mazo says
Funny how you speak of “fifth columnists”, when its those countries which invaded the lands of the “fifth columnists”.
Chechens (and the other caucasian ethnic groups like Ingush) never attacked Russia or set one foot on Russian territory, in fact, the Russians never even had access to the caucasus until they invaded the Astrakhan Khanate and then proceeded to the caucasus.
I’ve taken a look back at some old posts, you claim that because Turkic Tartars were raiding Russia, that somehow the totally unrelated Chechens and Ingush deserved to get conquered by Russia for Tartar raids.
The Chechens and Ingush never built an empire or even states or kingdoms. They practiced Islam suffused with their pre-Islamic paganism until the 19th century, when the Russian invasions led Sufi orders to gain rapid amounts of converts among them. To this day Chechens still follow their own adat and do not marry their cousins, which is permitted in Islam.
So if Spain invades Gambia, does Gambia have the right to attack and bomb the shyte out of Poland, because Poles are Catholics like Spaniards?
And going by this dumb logic, since the Slavic Kievan Rus were the first to initiate war against the steppe nomads (the Turkic Khazar Khaganate was destroyed by Kiev), then the Tartar Turkic nomads were right to take revenge and curb stomp the Eastern Slavs by raiding their territory.
Many non-Muslim insurgents groups are waging war in India.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurgent_groups_in_Northeast_India
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separatist_movements_of_India
flakmusic says
@mazo
“… appears to have a homosexual infatuation with me…”
Wishful thinking , little mazo-chist.
Because he kicks your arse time and again doesn’t mean he is interested in it.
Keep on dreaming.
dumbledoresarmy says
Let’s ask our defender of Islam, point blank: **is he cheering for Boko Haram**?
Does he think it good and right and just for Boko Haram to attack churches and kill unarmed worshippers?
Does he approve of Boko Haram kidnapping, raping, and force-converting schoolgirls?
Because all he’s doing, right now, in this thread, like he does *everywhere* on jihadwatch, is run interference for those vile, murdering, thieving, raping, mohammed-imitating Mohammedan b*st*rds.
He’s running interference for Jihad in Africa, just like he runs interference for Jihad everywhere else.
Trying to throw sand in our eyes.
Which makes *him* a jihadist.
I don’t care how many times he tries to pretend that every single Jihad throughout history was “provoked” by its infidel victims, or that it wasn’t really jihad, that it had nothing to do with Islam.
I don’t care.
Because it’s false. It’s DAMNABLY false.
Mohammedans, beginning from mohammed onward, are past masters at sneakily starting fights and then making it look like *they* were the victims. Except that people who stand back, let their head clear, refocus on the reality of Islam as a cult of blood and war, and manage to keep from being tricked by the sleight of hand, stop listening to mohammedan excuses and keep an eagle eye fixed on what mohammedans are actually *doing*, can usually figure out that in fact the Mohammedans started it.
And: I’ve read Serge Trifkovic’s Sword of the Prophet. I’ve worked my way through the *mountain* of material from 14 centuries and a multitude of different “fronts” that is brought together in Andrew Bostom’s monumental tome, “The Legacy of Jihad”. And what I saw was a nonstop assault waged by Msulims upon non-Msulims in all directions on three continents for 14 centuries. All of it perfectly consistent with the malignant narcissism and the megalomaniacal dream of Total World Domination that is plainly set out in the mohammedan cult program, right there in the core texts.
Ockham’s Razor says: mohammedans make war on non-Muslims at various levels, whenever and however they can, very often trumping up all kinds of excuses. But at bottom, they make war because they’re *taught* to make war on everybody. Surah 9.29. End of.
Here’s my two cents.
Nigeria should divide in two, somewhere along a line through the middle belt. The Muslims can have the northern half.
The non-Muslims – animists, Christians, secular/ atheist – can have the *southern* half, which has *never* been Muslim. All non-Muslims will leave the northern half and take refuge in the southern half. And – this is very important, and without this, the division won’t work – EVERY LAST IDENTIFIABLE MUSLIM must be expelled into the northern half. Muslims in the north, non-Muslims in the south.
And then the southerners will massively fortify their border with the north, and *not one* Muslim will be allowed to cross that border. EVER.
Let’s see how loud our mohammedan howls with rage at the thought of this scenario.
Because, of course, the Ummah doesn’t want just *half* of Nigeria. It wants *all* of Nigeria. And then Benin, Togo, Ghana, Cameroon, and all the rest of Christian and animist subsaharan Africa…that it (the Ummah) *never* had. Is our mohammedan on board with that greedy programme? Let’s see.
Further thought. Suppose the Russian Federation decided to rid itself of its remaining mostly-Muslim provinces; on condition that *all Muslims* currently resident in the *majority-non-Muslim* portion of Russia, got evicted into said Muslim-dominated provinces (e.g. Chechnya) or into the other, neighbouring ‘stans. Would our mohammedan agree to that? Or would he want the Ummah to pocket the expanded territory for dar al Islam – from which non-Muslims would be driven out, betcha, sooner or later – but still *demand* that all Muslims currently within Russia *must* be permitted to remain within Russia?
Mazo says
Voldemort’s army doesn’t care because she knows that she is lying. Why doesn’t she use her “eagle eye” and show us the evidence that Chechens and Ingush started it?
Boko Haram are criminal terrorists and I never said anything in support of them. The Nigerian governmen is corrupt and incompetent and pretending otherwise is delusional fantasy.
Chechens and Ingush had nothing to do with Tatars raiding Russia. If all lands were restored to the peoples (like the Astrakhan Khanate, Sibir Khanate, Khanate of Kazan, Crimean Khanate and Nogai Horde were restored, in addition to Circassian, Chechen, Ingush, and Dagestan independence (everything restored to pre-conquest situation), then of course all Muslims in Moscow and traditional Slavic areas should leave and return to their respective homelands.
In Nigeria returns to the pre-colonial situation with it being divided in two, I would agree that if it was along religious lines each citizen should be moved to their respective part of Nigeria.
Colonel Gaddafi made that suggestion already.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8570350.stm
I really don’t care what goes on in Europe, they can shut their doors to any sort of immigration from everywhere and preserve their own race and culture, many Muslims would agree that is the logical thing to do. Europe should stop all non-European immigrants.
Mazo says
preserve their own race and culture and Christian religion and stop intefering in other country’s business in return.