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Nigerian Police killed by Islam sect mob |
2007-04-18 |
HT to the Captain A mob killed 13 people in an attack on a police station in the northern Nigerian city of Kano yesterday, four days after unidentified gunmen shot dead a hardline Muslim cleric. Police said that the mob, suspected of belonging to a radical Islamic sect, burnt the police station in the Panshekara district and killed the officer in charge, his wife and 11 other officers. The sect killed a divisional police officer in an attack in the Sharada district last week. Kano is one of 12 northern Nigerian states that introduced Sharia in 2000. The move alienated Christian minorities and sparked violence. Southern Nigeria is predominantly Christian. Tensions are running high in the city of six million because of state elections held on Saturday and a presidential vote on April 21. It was not clear if the latest violence was connected to the elections. |
Posted by:Frank G |
#7 uh huh |
Posted by: Frank G 2007-04-18 22:27 |
#6 In the old days in England, Vivian was as much a masculine name as feminine (although there may have been an alternate spelling I didn't notice, like Frances/Francis). |
Posted by: trailing wife 2007-04-18 22:11 |
#5 Why are you sometimes Ebbolump Glomotle9608, and other times Paul? Saturday evenings, it calls itself Vivian.... |
Posted by: Pappy 2007-04-18 21:54 |
#4 Big hint: Fire into the crowd. |
Posted by: Zenster 2007-04-18 15:12 |
#3 Blinding light on the way to Damascus. |
Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2007-04-18 08:02 |
#2 Why are you sometimes Ebbolump Glomotle9608, and other times Paul? |
Posted by: trailing wife 2007-04-18 07:29 |
#1 The religion of peace strikes again!!!! |
Posted by: Ebbolump Glomotle9608 2007-04-18 07:15 |