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Suspect in Boko Haram Nigeria Attack 'Held in Sudan'
2014-05-16
[AnNahar] A suspect wanted over the deadliest-ever attack in Nigeria's capital -- a blast blamed on 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...
Islamists -- has been tossed in the calaboose
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
in Sudan, a source close to the case said Thursday.

Aminu Sadiq Ogwuche was detained on Tuesday as he tried to get a visa from the Turkish embassy in central Khartoum, the source told Agence La Belle France Presse, requesting anonymity.

"There wasn't any resistance" to the arrest, said the source, who added that the suspect was still in Sudan on Thursday.

Seventy-one people were killed and 124 were maimed in the April 15 bomb kaboom at a packed Abuja bus station.

President Goodluck Jonathan
... 14th President of Nigeria. He was Governor of Bayelsa State from 9 December 2005 to 28 May 2007, and was sworn in as Vice President on 29 May 2007. Jonathan is a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). He is a lover of nifty hats, which makes him easily recognizable unless someone else in the room is wearing a neat chapeau...
blamed Boko Haram, much of whose previous violence had been in the country's northeast.

Nigerian officials earlier said Ogwuche was the subject of a "Red Notice" from Interpol. Red Notices are typically issued for wanted persons with a view to their extradition.

Ogwuche arrived in Khartoum late last year to study Arabic at the International University of Africa, but visited Nigeria earlier this year, the source added.

Boko Haram is currently holding hostage more than 200 schoolgirls that it kidnapped, an act that has sparked global outrage.

In the early 1990s, Sudan became a notorious refuge for Death Eater Islamists, including now-dead al-Qaeda leader the late Osama bin Laden
... who is no longer with us, and won't be again...
who was based in Sudan from 1991 to 1996.

Although the United States continues to designate Sudan as a State Sponsor of Terrorism, one of only four in the world, a 2013 U.S. State Department report said the country "is generally responsive to international community concerns about counter-terrorism efforts."

It said Sudan's vast, mostly unmonitored borders with Libya, Chad, the Central African Republic, South Sudan, Æthiopia, and Eritrea
...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age...
have, however, hampered counter-terrorism efforts.
Posted by:trailing wife

#1  Sudan's vast, mostly unmonitored borders with Libya, Chad, the Central African Republic, South Sudan, Ćthiopia, and Eritrea

Especially Chad.
Posted by: Pappy   2014-05-16 11:59  

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