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| Suspected Islamists Steal 125 Kg Of Dynamite In North Nigeria |
| 2013-08-01 |
| [AlAhram] Gunmen suspected to be allied to Islamist sect 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... have stormed a construction site in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... , carting off 125 kg (275 pounds) of dynamite and hundreds of detonators, two security sources said on Wednesday. The gunnies struck the Bara area of Yobe state at around 2 a.m. on Monday morning, the two security sources in Yobe told Rooters, but no shots were heard. One of the sources said the men arrived on four cycle of violences, beating and overpowering the site's private security guards. The police and military both declined to comment. Officials from the company, a Nigerian firm called Ric Rock, were not immediately available for comment. The Nigerian military launched a major offensive in May aimed at defeating the Islamists in three northeastern states -- Borno, Yobe and Adamawa -- but that has pushed many of them into hiding, from where they can still launch deadly attacks. Multiple kabooms in Nigeria's biggest northern city of Kano killed at least 22 people on Monday, a military source told Rooters on Wednesday, updating an earlier corpse count of 15. The attack underscored the continuing threat the rebels armed with explosive pose in the north. Since its initial uprising in 2009, Boko Haram has grown in sophistication, learning bomb-making technology from al Qaeda-linked gunnies in the Sahara to the north. Videos shown to Rooters by a counter-terrorism official on Sunday showed Boko Haram gunnies giving detailed instructions on how to make bombs -- including a boom jacket and a boom-mobile -- in the northern Hausa language, filming how it is done. |
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