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| Soldiers raid Islamist base in Nigerian city after blasts | |
| 2012-05-12 | |
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Nigerian troops cooled for a few yearsKeep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! a suspected leading Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... bad boy in a raid yesterday, a day after the restive city where the Islamist group is based was rocked by blasts and gunfire. "We had an operation this morning... at a Boko Haram hideout (in the northern city of Kano). We made some arrests but details will be given later," Kano military front man Lieutenant Iweha Ikedichi told AFP. A security source involved in the raid in the Farawa neighbourhood of Kano, the largest city in the north, said a suspected high-profile member of the group, Suleiman Mohammed, was cooled for a few years Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! along with his wife and five children. "We recovered three pistols, a rifle, 1,000 rounds of ammunition and 10 IEDs (improvised bombs)," the source said, adding that the house was destroyed during the raid. Yesterday's raid came a day after several kabooms and gunfire rocked the restive northeastern city of Maiduguri where Boko Haram has its base. "In the late hours we had two kabooms followed by sporadic gunshots. I don't have any further information now on casualties," a security official who did not want to be named told AFP. He said the attack happened near a church in an area where a mosque owned by Boko Haram was razed during a 2009 crackdown on the group. AFP saw truckloads of soldiers deployed to the area yesterday. The military and local residents reported a third blast on Thursday in a different area of the city. "There was a blast in an open field by the riverside. We still don't know who the target was but nobody was hurt," military front man Lieutenant Colonel Sagir Musa told AFP. Residents said it happened near a football field where a match was being played and caused people to flee. Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch, Butch and the Kid finally brought their horses under control... Nigeria is open to talks aimed at ending the violence shaking the country, Vice-President Namadi Sambo said, condemning attacks carried out in the name of Islam as a distortion of the faith. "The Government is ready to discuss. History has proven that even wars that are fought for decades, at the end, are only concluded by dialogue," Sambo told a peace symposium on Thursday in Abuja.
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