Young female suicide bombers kill 15 in Nigeria market attack

[Little Tich]

Source: The Guardian

Girl aged just 11 one of two bombers linked to Islamist terror group Boko Haram

At least 15 people have been killed after two female suicide bombers, one said to be aged as young as 11, blew themselves up at a busy mobile phone market in north-east Nigeria, a day after more than 30 were killed in a bomb blast.

Two explosions ripped through the Farm Centre market in northern Nigeria’s biggest city, Kano, shortly after 4pm on Wednesday. One of the bombers was said to be aged just 11 and the other 18.

The Islamist terror group Boko Haram has previously used young girls as human bombs in its six-year insurgency in north-east Nigeria, which has left at least 17,000 dead and made more than 2.6 million homeless.

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/18/young-female-suicide-bombers-kill-15-in-nigeria-market-attack

[Blue_Tires]

1. Of course this will never get any play because

there's no way to blame the west for Boko Haram, and that screws up the narrative.

[Scootaloo]

7. It won't get any play from the "other side" either, because the victims are black Africans

While people are fawning over a police dog, with "Je Suis Chien," there will be no "Ni Kano," just as there was no "'ana Beruit."

[pediatricmedic]

8. Somebody will be along shortly who will find a way to blame the west

Probably something like they had ties with Libya, which had ties to Pakistan, which had ties to Bin Laden, which had ties to the Somalis, which had ties to the Saudis, which was all funded by Bush.

BTW, Hillary has ties to Bush, feel the Bern

[rockfordfile]

20. What are you trying say?

[OrwellwasRight]

15. what do you mean

"blame the west"?

[Blue_Tires]

18. In other words, Nigeria hasn't invaded Iraq

and they haven't droned anybody, so there's no convenient, overly simplistic explanation to whitewash this...

[rockfordfile]

21. Didn't fox news say something similar to what you typed?

I could be wrong but it seems similar.

[maxsolomon]

19. Here's the narrative that blames the West:

Obama aided the overthrow of Qadaffi, and Libyan arms have flooded the Sahel.

Also, the name Boko Haram means "Western Education is Forbidden" (close, not precise), so our UN programs and NGO programs to educate in the area are at fault for provoking traditional societies.

I don't agree with this, of course.

[AuntPatsy]

2. ..

[TexasMommaWithAHat]

3. How do we know they blew themselves up?

Isn't it possible or even likely that someone else detonated the bombs?

[msrizzo]

4. Those poor brutalized girls.

Who knows, maybe blowing themselves up is a release from the horrors they have to endure.

[TexasMommaWithAHat]

5. You have a point. Very, very sad.

nt

[smirkymonkey]

10. Just what I was thinking. So Sad.

[pediatricmedic]

9. You are correct, they may have been remotely detonated

What kind of sick depraved mind is capable of something like that?

[Jesus Malverde]

11. I've seen people in Syria brutalized and tortured into being

Suicide bombers. The NY Times quite uncritically was embedded with one of these groups a few years ago in Syria. The video showed it wasn't a willing suicide bomber. There have also been cases where some poor schmuck is hired to drive a truck or car to x location and a follow car sets it off, with terrorists anything goes.

The London 7-7 bombers were possibly set up like this.

[ericson00]

6. liberals not standing against this stuff

will do to the Democratic nominee next year what happened in 1952: a GOPer will get elected in a landslide by Islamism-baiting, just as Ike/Nixon redbaited Stevenson badly.

And no, Boko Haram did not do this EVIL because Nigeria was once a non-Muslim-controlled colony.

[SunSeeker]

12. K & R for exposure. nt

[colorado_ufo]

13. Women are of little value to them, and girls even less.

They are just like cattle and to be used for whatever purposes they wish. Female lives mean nothing to them. It is almost certain that these girls were simply unwilling sacrifices that had explosives strapped to them that were detonated by someone else, lest they seek aid and refuge. They could have been tortured or had the lives of their loved ones threatened or had them tortured.

[Quantess]

14. Nauseating.

[FLPanhandle]

16. Someone here will come along with reason why we should feel sorry for Boko Haram soon.

Blowing up little girls and taking out innocent people.

Expect the following: It's our fault for colonies in the past, they are doing it since they need money, it's because of climate change, they aren't all evil...

Whatever.

[caprichoso]

17. Facebook should change its logo to the Nigerian flag

It should not only be done when something bad happens in a chic, cool, white-majority country such as France.