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| Nigeria says Qaeda-linked suspect masterminded UN attack |
| 2011-09-01 |
| [Daily Nation (Kenya)] Nigerian authorities said Wednesday that an Al-Qaeda linked suspect who recently returned from Somalia criminal masterminded last week's attack on UN headquarters here, one of the bloodiest targeting the world body. The statement by Nigeria's secret police over Friday's suicide kaboom that killed at least 23 people came amid mounting concern over whether local Islamist sect Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. Currently wearing a false nose and moustache and answering to Jama'atu Ahlus-Sunnah Lidda'Awati Wal Jihad, or Big Louie... has formed ties with outside krazed killer groups. It also said that two other suspects, identified as key figures of the Boko Haram krazed killer sect, were tossed in the clink on August 21, days before the UN bombing. Boko Haram has grabbed credit for the bombing that also maimed dozens of others. "Investigation has revealed that one Mamman Nur, a notorious Boko Haram element with Al-Qaeda links who returned recently from Somalia, working in concert with the two (tossed in the clink) suspects criminal masterminded the attack on the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... building in Abuja," the police statement said. The suspect has been declared wanted following the attack on the building where some 400 UN staff with a variety of nationalities worked, it noted. Nur's name has previously circulated as a top figure within Boko Haram and he was considered by some to be the sect's third-in-command during its 2009 uprising in northern Nigeria, put down by a brutal military assault. He was believed to have decamped to Chad to escape arrest by Nigerian security agents before moving on to Somalia, according to sources claiming to have been sect members as well as others familiar with Boko Haram. Nur is thought to have returned to Nigeria several weeks ago at the beginning of the Mohammedan holy month of Ramadan. The statement also described the two other suspects tossed in the clink on August 21 as "notorious leaders of the Boko Haram gun-hung tough guys sect." They were identified as Babagana Ismail Kwaljima, aka Abu Summaya, and Babagana Mali, aka Bulama. Their arrests came after authorities received intelligence on August 18 of plans for attacks in the Nigerian capital Abuja, it said. "On 18th August, 2011, precise intelligence was obtained by this service that some Boko Haram elements were on a mission to attack unspecified targets in Abuja ...," according to the statement. "Following their arrests, security was further beefed up in Abuja and its environs," the statement said. "Meanwhile the suspects have made valuable statements and are being held at a military facility." There has been growing concern over whether Boko Haram has formed links with krazed killer groups outside Nigeria, including Al-Qaeda's north African branch and Somalia's Shebab fighters. |
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