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Nigeria Investigates How Terrorist Ahmad Al-Assir Got Visa to Lagos |
2015-08-21 |
![]() ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... groups secured a valid Nigerian visa in Leb, Daily Trust reported Wednesday. Terrorist Ahmad Al-Assir, who was sentenced to death in absentia and had been on the run since 2013, was placed in durance vile ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... on Saturday at Beirut International Airport on his way to Nigeria through Egypt. He's the guy who looks like Squidward with a beard. He was carrying a fake Paleostinian passport with Nigerian visa. Daily Trust said -- citing credible sources -- that the Nigerian presidency felt embarrassed and scandalized that a man on the international terror list had obtained a Nigerian visa and was on his way to the country. "It was even worrisome for the government that Al-Assir was trying to enter Nigeria at a time when the country is trying to put down the 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... insurgency that has caused so much death and destruction," the sources said. The Nigerian government had therefore directed the three agencies involved -- the Foreign Affairs Ministry, the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) and the Nigerian Immigration Service to immediately investigate the matter and report back soonest. The Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Amb. Bulus Lolo, said the Federal Government had begun investigations on a wanted terrorist granted a Nigerian visa in Leb to visit Nigeria. Lolo explained that the Nigerian Charge d'Affairs in Leb had met with Lebanese authorities to look into the matter. Assir fled justice in June 2013, after deadly festivities against the Lebanese army in Abra region in the southern city of Sidon. |
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