Will the Islamophobia never end? “Suicide bombers kill 24 at 2 bus stations in north Nigeria,” by Adamu Adamu and Ibrahim Garba, Associated Press, February 24, 2015 (thanks to Kenneth):
POTISKUM, Nigeria (AP) — Teenage suicide bombers, suspected to be Boko Haram extremists, killed at least 24 people in separate blasts Tuesday at crowded bus stations in two northern Nigerian cities 300 kilometers (200 miles) apart.
In an apparently unrelated development, an American missionary has been kidnapped from a school in central Kogi state. The Rev. Phyllis Sortor was taken away Monday by several abductors, according to a statement on the website of the First Methodist Church in Seattle. Kidnappings for ransom are common in Nigeria, and many victims are returned unharmed.
In the northeastern town of Potiskum, a young man forced his way onto a bus and detonated explosives that killed 12 people and injured 20, according to the bus driver and hospital records.
Hours later, two young men were blamed for explosions that ripped through a bus station in northern Kano city, killing at least 12 people and injuring many more, according to state police commissioner Ibrahim Idris. Witnesses said the bombers appeared to be 17 or 18 years old.
The explosions triggered fires that destroyed two buses and a car, Idris said.
Firefighters rushed to the scene of twisted metal, wailing people and billowing smoke. Ambulances with sirens blaring carried bodies and the wounded to the hospitals in Kano, Nigeria’s second largest city.
The attack in Potiskum comes two days after a girl who looked about 10 years old carried explosives that detonated killing her and four others at a market in the same town.
Bus driver Adamu Isa said a security guard stopped a man who set off a metal detector as passengers were boarding his bus in Potiskum.
“He was told to stand to one side but instead forced himself onto the bus and blew himself up,” said Isa, who considered himself lucky to be alive.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for Tuesday’s blasts but they bear all the signs of similar attacks by Nigeria’s home-grown Boko Haram Islamic extremist group.
On Monday, a woman walked into a primary school in Fune, another area of Yobe state, and tried to give pupils a parcel to deliver to the headmistress. When they refused, she ran off, leading security agents to surmise she may have been carrying a bomb, teacher Mohammad Isa of Damagum Central Primary School told The Associated Press.
All schools in the area have been closed because of the possible threat….
moses says
everywhere in the world news apart from ukranian crisis,greek debt crisis all other news is related to Islam.This clearly shows that Islam is very rotten to the core and has a
huge problem.
M S case says
Just pass by one of them on the street and you know they are rotten……….wheeeeeeee
JeffS says
“Teenage suicide bombers, suspected to be Boko Haram extremists”
as opposed to Boko Haram moderates.
JeffS says
“a young man” “two young men”
An epidemic of attacks by young men.
Oliver says
Jeff,
IT IS MUSLIM YOUNG MEN OR YOUNG MUSLIM MEN.
Young men of other faiths do not blow up buses for the hell of it, to murder innocent people.
Look at the LONG, VERY LONG list of YOUNG MUSLIM MEN who murder people.
The World Trade Center.
Bobby Kennedy
The elderly man (in a wheel chair thrown off a cruise ship)
The murdering of the police officer in Queens NY
The murdering of the two police officers in Brooklyn, NY
and the lsit goes on, and on and on
JeffS says
I’m pointing out the mainstream media’s propensity to obscure Muslim perpetrators by calling them anything but Muslim, such as “young men”, or “Asians”, or “militants”, etc.
Oliver says
I understand–but whitewashing (hey, is that racist?) does not change the fact. IT IS YOUNG MUSLIM MEN, NOT YOUNG BUDDHISTS; HINDUS; CATHOLICS; JEWS OR CHURCH OF CHRIST OR MORMONS. IF it were any of those groups, the LAME STREAM MEDIA would orgasm while writing it.
Especially (my view) if Jews or Muslims.
Oliver says
On my prior post, IN THE LAST LINE, I SAID ESPECIALLY IF JEWS OR MUSLIMS. MEANT ESPECIALLY IF JEWS OR MORMONS.
Sorry
moses says
Islam will end Samatar there is no cheap propaganda here just the truth something that muslims don’t like to hear about their stupid religion.
Walter Sieruk says
This terrible and awful affront of madness and folly is the outcome of the extreme brainwashing that is done by the Islamic clerics such as the imams who thoroughly mind program into the hearts and minds of others the Islamic doctrine from the Koran, 44:54. 55:56. 78:31., of a paradise with many virgins, houris, in it for the Muslim who dies in the jihad for the cause of Islam. The actual origin of this Koranic doctrine/myth is ,in reality, not from a divine source but it was taken or lifted from Arabian and Zoroastrianism mythology fused together and then inserted into the Koran as well as other written works of Islam by wicked and deceptive men. Now this myth/doctrine of a place with virgins is now part of the whole hoax of Islam. Furthermore, the Bible had predicted the rises of such false teachers as these imams who indoctrinate [ingrain] this type of myth/doctrine in the thoughts of others. For the Bible reads “For the time will come when they will not stand wholesome teachings, but will follow their own fancy and gather a crowd of teachers to tickle their ears. They will stop their ears to the truth and turn to mythology.” Second Timothy 4:3,4. [N.E.B.]
Angemon says
Who else does suicide bombings around there?
carlos says
Unnecessary violence that has no meaning
jaci jono sirangelo says
LOOK LIKE SOME KORANS ARE ONLY WAR MANUALS , LIKE : HAW TO MAKE A FAKE RELIGIOUS WAR , ONLY TO SEND KIDS AS SUICIDE BOMBS TO KILL PEOPLE TO HAVE POWER
WERE ARE THE BOSSES ???? GO EXPLODE YOURSELF …I SATAY HERE SEEPING LEMONADE